A Novel QoS provisioning Scheme for OBS networks

This paper presents Classified Cloning, a novel QoS provisioning mechanism for OBS networks carrying real-time applications (such as video on demand, Voice over IP, online gaming and Grid computing). It provides such applications with a minimum loss rate while minimizing end-to-end delay and jitter. ns-2 has been used as the simulation tool, with new OBS modules having been developed for performance evaluation purposes. Ingress node performance has been investigated, as well as the overall performance of the suggested scheme. The results obtained showed that new scheme has superior performance to classical cloning. In particular, QoS provisioning offers a guaranteed burst loss rate, delay and expected value of jitter, unlike existing proposals for QoS implementation in OBS which use the burst offset time to provide such differentiation. Indeed, classical schemes increase both end-to-end delay and jitter. It is shown that the burst loss rate is reduced by 50% reduced over classical cloning

Joint path and resource selection for OBS grids with adaptive offset based QOS mechanism

Ankara : The Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering and the Institute of Engineering and Sciences of Bilkent University, 2007.Thesis (Master's) -- Bilkent University, 2007.Includes bibliographical references leaves 71-76It is predicted that grid computing will be available for consumers performing their daily computational needs with the deployment of high bandwidth optical networks. Optical burst switching is a suitable switching technology for this kind of consumer grid networks because of its bandwidth granularity. However, high loss rates inherent in OBS has to be addressed to establish a reliable transmission infrastructure. In this thesis, we propose mechanisms to reduce loss rates in an OBS grid scenario by using network-aware resource selection and adaptive offset determination. We first propose a congestion-based joint resource and path selection algorithm. We show that path switching and network-aware resource selection can reduce burst loss probability and average completion time of grid jobs compared to the algorithms that are separately selecting paths and grid resources. In addition to joint resource and path selection, we present an adaptive offset algorithm for grid bursts which minimizes the average completion time. We show that the adaptive offset based QoS mechanism significantly reduces the job completion times by exploiting the trade-off between decreasing loss probability and increasing delay as a result of the extra offset time.Köseoğlu, MehmetM.S

Quality of service in optical burst switching networks

Tese dout., Engenharia Electrónica e Computação, Universidade do Algarve, 2009Fundação para e Ciência e a Tecnologi

Offset time-emulated architecture for optical burst switching-modelling and performance evaluation

L'evolució de les xarxes publiques de transport de dades destaca per el continu augment de la demanda de tràfic a la que estan sotmeses. La causa és la imparable popularització d'Internet i del seu ús per a tot tipus d'aplicacions. Les xarxes de commutació de ràfegues òptiques (OBS: Optical Bursts Switching) són una solució extraordinàriament prometedora per la pròxima generació de xarxes, tant per la flexibilitat que ofereixen com per el seu alt rendiment fruit de l'explotació de la multiplexació estadística en el domini òptic.Aquesta tesi presenta l'anàlisi, modelització i avaluació de les xarxes de commutació de ràfegues òptiques basades en l'emulació del temps de compensació (emulated offset time: E-OBS). El concepte d'E-OBS defineix una arquitectura de xarxa OBS per al transportar i commutar ràfegues òptiques en una xarxa troncal en la que, al contrari de l'arquitectura convencional (C-OBS) en la que el temps de compensació s'introdueix des dels nodes d'accés, el temps de compensació s'introdueix en cadascun dels nodes de la xarxa per mitjà d'un retardador de fibra addicional. L'arquitectura E-OBS permet superar algunes de les desavantatges inherents a arquitectures C-OBS, però la seva gran virtut és la compatibilitat amb les xarxes de commutació de circuits òptics (OCS: Optical Circuit Switching) actuals i les futures xarxes de commutació de paquets òptics (OPS: Optical Packet Switching), de manera que les xarxes OBS basades en una arquitectura E-OBS) poden facilitat enormement la transició de unes a les altres.A ala vista dels principals requeriments de disseny de les xarxes OBS, que són la resolució de contencions en el domini òptic, la provisió de qualitat de servei (QoS) i l'òptim encaminament de les ràfegues per tal de minimitzar la congestió de la xarxa, . en aquesta tesi es proposa un disseny de l'arquitectura E-OBS basada en (i) un mètode viable per a la provisió del temps de compensació, (ii) una qualitat alta global de servei, i (iii) un mecanisme d'encaminament que minimitzi congestió de xarxa.- La primera part d'aquesta tesi proporciona la informació documental necessària per al disseny d'E-OBS.- La segona part se centra en l'estudi de la funcionalitat i viabilitat de l'arquitectura E-OBS. S'introdueixen els principis d'operació d'E-OBS i s'identifiquen els principals esculls que presenten les arquitectures C-OBS i que deixen de ser-ho en una arquitectura E-OBS. Alguns d'aquests esculls són la dificultat d'utilitzar un algorisme d'encaminament amb rutes alternatives, la complexitat dels algoritmes de reserva de recursos i la seva falta d'equitat, la complexitat en la provisió de la QoS, etc. En aquesta segona part es constata que l'arquitectura E-OBS redueix la complexitat dels de reserva de recursos i es verifica la viabilitat d'operació i de funcionament de la provisió del tremps de compensació en aquesta arquitectura a partir de figures de comportament obtingudes amb retardadors de fibra comercialment disponibles.- La tercera part encara el problema de la provisió de la QoS. Primer s'hi revisen els conceptes bàsics de QoS així com els mecanismes de tractament de la QoS per a xarxes OBS fent-ne una comparació qualitativa i de rendiment de tots ells. Com a resultat s'obté que el mecanisme que presenta un millor comportament és el d'avortament de la transmissió de les ràfegues de més baixa prioritat quan aquestes col·lisionen amb una de prioritat més alta (es l'anomenat Burst Preemption mechanism), el qual en alguns casos presenta un problema de senyalització innecessària. Aquesta tercera part es conclou amb la proposta d'un mecanisme de finestra a afegir al esquema de Burst Preemption que només funciona sobre una arquitectura E-OBS i que soluciona aquest problema.- En la quarta part s'afronta el problema de l'encaminament en xarxes OBS. S'estudia el comportament dels algoritmes d'encaminament adaptatius, els aïllats amb rutes alternatives i els multicamí distribuïts, sobre xarxes E-OBS. A la vista dels resultats no massa satisfactoris que s'obtenen, es planteja una solució alternativa que es basa en model d'optimització no lineal. Es formulen i resolen dos models d'optimització per als algoritmes encaminament de font multicamí que redueixen notablement la congestió en les xarxes OBS.Finalment, aquesta tesi conclou que l'arquitectura E-OBS és factible, que és més eficient que la C-OBS, que proveeix eficaçment QoS, i que és capaç d'operar amb diverses estratègies d'encaminament i de reduir eficaçment la congestió de xarxa.The fact that the Internet is a packet-based connection-less network is the main driver to develop a data-centric transport network. In this context, the optical burst switching (OBS) technology is considered as a promising solution for reducing the gap between transmission and switching speeds in future networks.This thesis presents the analysis, modelling, and evaluation of the OBS network with Emulated offset-time provisioning (E-OBS). E-OBS defines an OBS network architecture to transport and switch optical data bursts in a core network. On the contrary to a conventional offset-time provisioning OBS (C-OBS) architecture, where a transmission offset time is introduced in the edge node, in an E-OBS network the offset time is provided in the core node by means of an additional fibre delay element. The architecture is motivated by several drawbacks inherent to C-OBS architectures. It should be pointed out that the E-OBS has not been studied intensively in the literature and this concept has been considered rather occasionally.Due to the limitations in optical processing and queuing, OBS networks need a special treatment so that they could solve problems typical of data-centric networks. Contention resolution in optical domain together with quality of service (QoS) provisioning for quality demanding services are, among other things, the main designing issues when developing OBS networks. Another important aspect is routing problem, which concerns effective balancing of traffic load so that to reduce burst congestion at overloaded links. Accounting for these requirements, the design objectives for the E-OBS architecture are (i) feasibility of offset-time provisioning, (ii) an overall high quality of service, and (iii) reduction of network congestion. These objectives are achieved by combining selected concepts and strategies, together with appropriate system design as well as network traffic engineering.The contributions in this thesis can be summarized as follows.- At the beginning, we introduce the principles of E-OBS operation and we demonstrate that C-OBS possesses many drawbacks that can be easily avoided in E-OBS. Some of the discussed issues are the problem of unfairness in resources reservation, difficulty with alternative routing, complexity of resources reservation algorithms, efficiency of burst scheduling, and complexity in QoS provisioning. The feasibility of E-OBS operation is investigated as well; in this context, the impact of congestion in control plane on OBS operation is studied. As a result, we confirm the feasibility of E-OBS operation with commercially available fibre delay elements.- Then, we provide both qualitative and quantitative comparison of the selected, most addressed in the literature, QoS mechanisms. As an outcome a burst preemption mechanism, which is characterized by the highest overall performance, is qualified for operating in E-OBS. Since the preemptive mechanism may produce the overbooking of resources in an OBS network we address this issue as well. We propose the preemption window mechanism to solve the problem. An analytical model of the mechanism legitimates correctness of our solution.- Finally, we concern with a routing problem - our routing objective is to help the contention resolution algorithms in the reduction of burst losses. We propose and evaluate two isolated alternative routing algorithms designed for labelled E-OBS networks. Then we study multi-path source routing and we use network optimization theory to improve it. The presented formulae for partial derivatives, to be used in a non-linear optimization problem, are straightforward and very fast to compute. It makes the proposed non-linear optimization method a viable alternative for linear programming formulations based on piecewise linear approximations.Concluding, E-OBS is shown to be a feasible OBS network architecture of profitable functionality, to support efficiently the QoS provisioning, and to be able to operate with different routing strategies and effectively reduce the network congestion

Architecture de simulation multiressource pour un réseau grille basé sur OBS

Le concept de la grille de calcul a émergé récemment comme infrastructure apte à répondre aux exigences des applications scientifiques et économiques en termes de stockage et calcul. Le principe de la grille est de regrouper toute la puissance inexploitée des ordinateurs d'un réseau pour la mettre à la disposition des applications nécessitant de grands calculs. Il s'agit également d'utiliser l'espace de stockage inutilisé des serveurs pour y entreposer des données. Une grille de calcul représente donc une collection de ressources informatiques réparties en plusieurs emplacements et agissent en tant que ressources de traitement unifiées ou comme une collection d'ordinateurs virtuels. L'avantage de la grille consiste en un traitement plus rapide et plus efficace. Elle permet aussi d'éliminer l'inconvénient de lier étroitement des machines spécifiques à des travaux spécifiques. Puisqu'elle permet à des utilisateurs et à des applications d'accéder et de contrôler efficacement diverses ressources de différentes locations distribuées. Toutefois, sans un moyen de transport de données assez rapide, il y aurait aucun avantage dans le traitement distribué des données. La commutation optique par rafales (OBS) a été identifiée comme la technologie idéale pour répondre aux exigences de la grille. Cette approche est connue sous le nom de grille basée sur OBS « GOBS ». Dans ce mémoire nous étudions et évaluons la performance d'un réseau GOBS. Nous présentons aussi le problème de multi-ressource dans le cas où plusieurs ressources informatiques seront dédiées pour le traitement des tâches de la grille. Les résultats obtenus nous ont permis de démontrer que l'approche multi-ressource est efficace pour le traitement distribuée au sein de la grille et particulièrement dans le cas de grandes tâches. Elle permet de réduire le taux de perte et aussi d'assurer un traitement plus rapide. ______________________________________________________________________________ MOTS-CLÉS DE L’AUTEUR : Grille de calcul, GOBS, OBS, Tâche, Burst, Rafale, Paquet de contrôle, Ressource

Towards all-optical label switching nodes with multicast

Fiber optics has developed so rapidly during the last decades that it has be- come the backbone of our communication systems. Evolved from initially static single-channel point-to-point links, the current advanced optical backbone net- work consists mostly of wavelength-division multiplexed (WDM) networks with optical add/drop multiplexing nodes and optical cross-connects that can switch data in the optical domain. However, the commercially implemented optical net- work nodes are still performing optical circuit switching using wavelength routing. The dedicated use of wavelength and infrequent recon¯guration result in relatively poor bandwidth utilization. The success of electronic packet switching has inspired researchers to improve the °exibility, e±ciency, granularity and network utiliza- tion of optical networks by introducing optical packet switching using short, local optical labels for forwarding decision making at intermediate optical core network nodes, a technique that is referred to as optical label switching (OLS). Various research demonstrations on OLS systems have been reported with transparent optical packet payload forwarding based on electronic packet label processing, taking advantage of the mature technologies of electronic logical cir- cuitry. This approach requires optic-electronic-optic (OEO) conversion of the op- tical labels, a costly and power consuming procedure particularly for high-speed labels. As optical packet payload bit rate increases from gigabit per second (Gb/s) to terabit per second (Tb/s) or higher, the increased speed of the optical labels will eventually face the electronic bottleneck, so that the OEO conversion and the electronic label processing will be no longer e±cient. OLS with label processing in the optical domain, namely, all-optical label switching (AOLS), will become necessary. Di®erent AOLS techniques have been proposed in the last ¯ve years. In this thesis, AOLS node architectures based on optical time-serial label processing are presented for WDM optical packets. The unicast node architecture, where each optical packet is to be sent to only one output port of the node, has been in- vestigated and partially demonstrated in the EU IST-LASAGNE project. This thesis contributes to the multicast aspects of the AOLS nodes, where the optical packets can be forwarded to multiple or all output ports of a node. Multicast capable AOLS nodes are becoming increasingly interesting due to the exponen- tial growth of the emerging multicast Internet and modern data services such as video streaming, high de¯nition TV, multi-party online games, and enterprise ap- plications such as video conferencing and optical storage area networks. Current electronic routers implement multicast in the Internet protocol (IP) layer, which requires not only the OEO conversion of the optical packets, but also exhaus- tive routing table lookup of the globally unique IP addresses. Despite that, there has been no extensive studies on AOLS multicast nodes, technologies and tra±c performance, apart from a few proof-of-principle experimental demonstrations. In this thesis, three aspects of the multicast capable AOLS nodes are addressed: 1. Logical design of the AOLS multicast node architectures, as well as func- tional subsystems and interconnections, based on state-of-the-art literature research of the ¯eld and the subject. 2. Computer simulations of the tra±c performance of di®erent AOLS unicast and multicast node architectures, using a custom-developed AOLS simulator AOLSim. 3. Experimental demonstrations in laboratory and computer simulations using the commercially available simulator VPItransmissionMakerTM, to evaluate the physical layer performance of the required all-optical multicast technolo- gies. A few selected multi-wavelength conversion (MWC) techniques are particularly looked into. MWC is an essential subsystem of the AOLS node for realizing optical packet multicast by making multiple copies of the optical packet all-optically onto di®er- ent wavelengths channels. In this thesis, theMWC techniques based on cross-phase modulation and four-wave mixing are extensively investigated. The former tech- nique o®ers more wavelength °exibility and good conversion e±ciency, but it is only applicable to intensity modulated signals. The latter technique, on the other hand, o®ers strict transparency in data rate and modulation format, but its work- ing wavelengths are limited by the device or component used, and the conversion e±ciency is considerably lower. The proposals and results presented in this thesis show feasibility of all-optical packet switching and multicasting at line speed without any OEO conversion and electronic processing. The scalability and the costly optical components of the AOLS nodes have been so far two of the major obstacles for commercialization of the AOLS concept. This thesis also introduced a novel, scalable optical labeling concept and a label processing scheme for the AOLS multicast nodes. The pro- posed scheme makes use of the spatial positions of each label bit instead of the total absolute value of all the label bits. Thus for an n-bit label, the complexity of the label processor is determined by n instead of 2n