Title :
Performance evaluation of Optical Burst Switched mesh networks with Localized Functional Resources
Author :
Bonani, Luiz Henrique
Author_Institution :
CECS, Univ. Fed. do ABC, Santo Andre, Brazil
Abstract :
This work investigates the performance of Optical Burst Switched (OBS) mesh networks using Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) and Localized Functional Resources (LFC). These OBS networks were designed to have the same amount of wavelengths in all the links of a mesh topology, but some nodes or links chosen from the knowledge of network utilization, have additional functional resources as Wavelength Converters (WC) and Deflection Routing (DR) capability. The preliminary results show that the Localized Functional Resources can be a good choice to increase the performance of future Metropolitan Area Networks (MAN) without adding new wavelengths to the links.
Keywords :
metropolitan area networks; optical burst switching; telecommunication network routing; wavelength division multiplexing; wireless mesh networks; LFC; MAN; WDM; deflection routing; localized functional resources; mesh topology; metropolitan area networks; optical burst switched mesh networks; wavelength converters; wavelength division multiplexing; Delay; Integrated optics; Network topology; Optical fiber networks; Optical wavelength conversion; Routing; Topology; Localized Functional Resources; OBS Networks;
Conference_Titel :
Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), 2012 14th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Coventry
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-2228-7
Electronic_ISBN :
2161-2056
DOI :
10.1109/ICTON.2012.6253809