• DocumentCode
    2015629
  • Title

    A fair packet-level performance comparison of OBS and OCS

  • Author

    Liu, Xin ; Qiao, Chunming ; Yu, Xiang ; Gong, Weibo

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., State Univ. of New York, USA
  • fYear
    2006
  • fDate
    5-10 March 2006
  • Abstract
    The performance of optical burst switching (OBS) and optical circuit-switching (OCS) in terms of packet delivery and packet loss ratios is compared based on a given input traffic and comparable settings. Our results show that OBS performs better in most cases.
  • Keywords
    circuit switching; optical fibre networks; packet switching; fair packet-level performance; optical burst switching; optical circuit-switching; packet delivery; packet loss ratios; Delay; Fabrics; Measurement; Optical buffering; Optical computing; Optical fiber networks; Optical wavelength conversion; Performance loss; Switching circuits; Telecommunication traffic;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Fiber Communication Conference, 2006 and the 2006 National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference. OFC 2006
  • Print_ISBN
    1-55752-803-9
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/OFC.2006.215829
  • Filename
    1636860