STATISTICAL TRAFFIC MULTIPLEXING WITH SERVICE GUARANTEES OVER OPTICAL CORE NETWORKS

A. Drakos, T. Orphanoudakis, C. (T) Politi, A. Stavdas

2010

Abstract

Statistical multiplexing at the optical layer has been considered a critical requirement in order to build the next generation of ultra-high capacity optical transport networks in a cost-efficient manner. However, even today, the state of the art of commercially available optical core networks is based on mature wavelength switching and routing technologies, which lack a transport and control plane architecture that can support statistical traffic multiplexing with guaranteed Quality of Service (QoS) across a wide range of QoS parameters even if they can support fast reconfiguration at msec time scales. For several years, most research efforts have focused on the concepts of Optical Burst Switching (OBS) and Optical Packet Switching (OPS), which are based on the hybrid use of electronic nodes and optical switches to exploit Time Division Multiplexing (TDM) in order to achieve statistical multiplexing and dynamic resource reservation over optical networks. While burst switching has been experimentally proven as a technically feasible technique, its performance suffers especially under strict requirements for QoS guarantees. In this paper we evaluate the performance gains that can be achieved exploiting statistical multiplexing over a large scale core optical network and we demonstrate the efficiency of the CANON architecture (Clustered Architecture for Nodes in an Optical Network) as a viable alternative to OBS, which can achieve both targets for statistical multiplexing gains and QoS guarantees at the same time.

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in Harvard Style

Drakos A., Orphanoudakis T., Politi C. and Stavdas A. (2010). STATISTICAL TRAFFIC MULTIPLEXING WITH SERVICE GUARANTEES OVER OPTICAL CORE NETWORKS . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Data Communication Networking and Optical Communication Systems - Volume 1: DCNET, (ICETE 2010) ISBN 978-989-8425-25-6, pages 114-118. DOI: 10.5220/0002991701140118


in Bibtex Style

@conference{dcnet10,
author={A. Drakos and T. Orphanoudakis and C. (T) Politi and A. Stavdas},
title={STATISTICAL TRAFFIC MULTIPLEXING WITH SERVICE GUARANTEES OVER OPTICAL CORE NETWORKS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Data Communication Networking and Optical Communication Systems - Volume 1: DCNET, (ICETE 2010)},
year={2010},
pages={114-118},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002991701140118},
isbn={978-989-8425-25-6},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Data Communication Networking and Optical Communication Systems - Volume 1: DCNET, (ICETE 2010)
TI - STATISTICAL TRAFFIC MULTIPLEXING WITH SERVICE GUARANTEES OVER OPTICAL CORE NETWORKS
SN - 978-989-8425-25-6
AU - Drakos A.
AU - Orphanoudakis T.
AU - Politi C.
AU - Stavdas A.
PY - 2010
SP - 114
EP - 118
DO - 10.5220/0002991701140118