Dimensioning an OBS switch with partial wavelength conversion and fiber delay lines via a mean field model

Juan F. Pérez, Benny Van Houdt

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In this paper we introduce a mean field model to analyze an optical switch equipped with both wavelength converters (WCs) and fiber delay lines (FDLs) to resolve contention in OBS networks. Under some very general conditions, that is, a general burst size distribution and any Markovian burst arrival process at each wavelength, this model determines the minimum number of WCs required to achieve a zero loss rate as the number of wavelengths becomes large. The mean field result is exact as the number of wavelengths goes to infinity and turns out to be very accurate for systems with (a few) hundred wavelengths, commonly occurring when using wavelength division multiplexing (WDM). Moreover, we show that if the number of WCs is underdimensioned, (i) periodic system behavior may occur (with the period being the greatest common divisor of the burst lengths) and (ii) increasing the number of WCs may even worsen the loss rate under the often studied minimum horizon allocation policy (as opposed to the minimum gap policy). Finally, we further demonstrate that in terms of the loss rate, including (more) FDLs may have little or no effect on the number of WCs required to achieve a near-zero loss, especially for higher loads.

Idioma originalInglés estadounidense
Título de la publicación alojadaIEEE INFOCOM 2009 - The 28th Conference on Computer Communications
Páginas2651-2655
Número de páginas5
DOI
EstadoPublicada - oct. 12 2009
Publicado de forma externa
Evento28th Conference on Computer Communications, IEEE INFOCOM 2009 - Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
Duración: abr. 19 2009abr. 25 2009

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Conferencia28th Conference on Computer Communications, IEEE INFOCOM 2009
País/TerritorioBrasil
CiudadRio de Janeiro
Período4/19/094/25/09

Áreas temáticas de ASJC Scopus

  • Ciencia de la Computación General
  • Ingeniería eléctrica y electrónica

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