Impairment-aware ordered scheduling in dual-header optical burst switched networks

Abstract

Optical burst switching (OBS) is a promising technology for bridging the gap between optical wavelength switching and optical packet switching. Optical signal transmission quality is subject to various types of physical impairment introduced by optical fibers, switching elements, or other network components. The signal degradation due to physical impairment may be significant enough such that the bit-error rate of received signals is unacceptably high at the destination, rendering the signal to not usable. In this article, based on earlier study, we study the burst-scheduling problem in OBS networks using two control packets for each data burst, taking into account physical impairment effects. We propose a burst-scheduling algorithm that accommodates incoming bursts by primary path routing, deflection routing, and burst scheduling. We design an admission control mechanism to use network resources efficiently. At an OBS node, the proposed algorithm schedules bursts for transmission by searching for available resources as well as verifying signal quality. Our simulation results demonstrate that the proposed algorithm is effective in terms of reducing the burst-blocking probability.

Network Performance Improvement of All-Optical Networks Through an Algorithmic Based Dispersion Management Technique

“…If the amount is too high to be tolerated, the bit error rate (BER) would then exceed the minimum threshold level and thus the connection request will be blocked by the control plane during the resource allocation process. In response, a significant amount of RWA algorithms that deal with PLI have been reported [9][10][11] where it is known as the Impairment-aware RWA or IRWA.…”