A survey of quality of service differentiation mechanisms for optical burst switching networks

Nail Akar; Ezhan Karasan; Kyriakos G. Vlachos; Emmanouel A. Varvarigos; Davide Careglio; Miroslaw Klinkowski; Josep Solé-Pareta

doi:10.1016/j.osn.2009.09.001

A survey of quality of service differentiation mechanisms for optical burst switching networks

Nail Akar, Ezhan Karasan, Kyriakos G. Vlachos, Emmanouel A. Varvarigos, Davide Careglio, Miroslaw Klinkowski, Josep Solé-Pareta

Research output: Contribution to journal › Review Article › Research › peer-review

18 Citations (Scopus)

Abstract

This paper presents an overview of Quality of Service (QoS) differentiation mechanisms proposed for Optical Burst Switching (OBS) networks. OBS has been proposed to couple the benefits of both circuit and packet switching for the "on demand" use of capacity in the future optical Internet. In such a case, QoS support imposes some important challenges before this technology is deployed. This paper takes a broader view on QoS, including QoS differentiation not only at the burst but also at the transport levels for OBS networks. A classification of existing QoS differentiation mechanisms for OBS is given and their efficiency and complexity are comparatively discussed. We provide numerical examples on how QoS differentiation with respect to burst loss rate and transport layer throughput can be achieved in OBS networks.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1-11
Number of pages	11
Journal	Optical Switching and Networking
Volume	7
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.osn.2009.09.001
Publication status	Published - Jan 2010
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Optical burst switching
Quality of service differentiation

Access to Document

10.1016/j.osn.2009.09.001

Cite this

@article{014d99f30564429a82861efa01cafd95,

title = "A survey of quality of service differentiation mechanisms for optical burst switching networks",

abstract = "This paper presents an overview of Quality of Service (QoS) differentiation mechanisms proposed for Optical Burst Switching (OBS) networks. OBS has been proposed to couple the benefits of both circuit and packet switching for the {"}on demand{"} use of capacity in the future optical Internet. In such a case, QoS support imposes some important challenges before this technology is deployed. This paper takes a broader view on QoS, including QoS differentiation not only at the burst but also at the transport levels for OBS networks. A classification of existing QoS differentiation mechanisms for OBS is given and their efficiency and complexity are comparatively discussed. We provide numerical examples on how QoS differentiation with respect to burst loss rate and transport layer throughput can be achieved in OBS networks.",

keywords = "Optical burst switching, Quality of service differentiation",

author = "Nail Akar and Ezhan Karasan and Vlachos, \{Kyriakos G.\} and Varvarigos, \{Emmanouel A.\} and Davide Careglio and Miroslaw Klinkowski and Josep Sol{\'e}-Pareta",

year = "2010",

month = jan,

doi = "10.1016/j.osn.2009.09.001",

language = "English",

volume = "7",

pages = "1--11",

journal = "Optical Switching and Networking",

issn = "1573-4277",

publisher = "Elsevier BV",

number = "1",

}

TY - JOUR

T1 - A survey of quality of service differentiation mechanisms for optical burst switching networks

AU - Akar, Nail

AU - Karasan, Ezhan

AU - Vlachos, Kyriakos G.

AU - Varvarigos, Emmanouel A.

AU - Careglio, Davide

AU - Klinkowski, Miroslaw

AU - Solé-Pareta, Josep

PY - 2010/1

Y1 - 2010/1

N2 - This paper presents an overview of Quality of Service (QoS) differentiation mechanisms proposed for Optical Burst Switching (OBS) networks. OBS has been proposed to couple the benefits of both circuit and packet switching for the "on demand" use of capacity in the future optical Internet. In such a case, QoS support imposes some important challenges before this technology is deployed. This paper takes a broader view on QoS, including QoS differentiation not only at the burst but also at the transport levels for OBS networks. A classification of existing QoS differentiation mechanisms for OBS is given and their efficiency and complexity are comparatively discussed. We provide numerical examples on how QoS differentiation with respect to burst loss rate and transport layer throughput can be achieved in OBS networks.

AB - This paper presents an overview of Quality of Service (QoS) differentiation mechanisms proposed for Optical Burst Switching (OBS) networks. OBS has been proposed to couple the benefits of both circuit and packet switching for the "on demand" use of capacity in the future optical Internet. In such a case, QoS support imposes some important challenges before this technology is deployed. This paper takes a broader view on QoS, including QoS differentiation not only at the burst but also at the transport levels for OBS networks. A classification of existing QoS differentiation mechanisms for OBS is given and their efficiency and complexity are comparatively discussed. We provide numerical examples on how QoS differentiation with respect to burst loss rate and transport layer throughput can be achieved in OBS networks.

KW - Optical burst switching

KW - Quality of service differentiation

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=70449602668&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1016/j.osn.2009.09.001

DO - 10.1016/j.osn.2009.09.001

M3 - Review Article

AN - SCOPUS:70449602668

SN - 1573-4277

VL - 7

SP - 1

EP - 11

JO - Optical Switching and Networking

JF - Optical Switching and Networking

IS - 1

ER -

A survey of quality of service differentiation mechanisms for optical burst switching networks

Abstract

Keywords

Access to Document

Other files and links

Cite this