Algorithms for quality of service provisioning and enhancement in optical burst switched networks

Ph.DDOCTOR OF PHILOSOPH

Telecommunications Networks

This book guides readers through the basics of rapidly emerging networks to more advanced concepts and future expectations of Telecommunications Networks. It identifies and examines the most pressing research issues in Telecommunications and it contains chapters written by leading researchers, academics and industry professionals. Telecommunications Networks - Current Status and Future Trends covers surveys of recent publications that investigate key areas of interest such as: IMS, eTOM, 3G/4G, optimization problems, modeling, simulation, quality of service, etc. This book, that is suitable for both PhD and master students, is organized into six sections: New Generation Networks, Quality of Services, Sensor Networks, Telecommunications, Traffic Engineering and Routing

Signaling strategies for consumer oriented Grid over Optical Burst Switching networks

Dissertação mest., Engenharia Eléctrica e Telecomunicações, Universidade do Algarve, 2009The concept of Grid networks has recently emerged as an infrastructure able to support, both scientific and commercial applications. The Grid is a dynamic, distributed collection of heterogeneous computational, storage and network resources geographically distributed and shared between organizations. Optical Burst Switching (OBS) networks have been identified as a technology with potential to support the requirements of the Grids. This approach, known as Grid over Optical Burst Switching (GOBS) is currently the object of intensive research. This dissertation focus is on GOBS architectures employing Active OBS Routers with centralized control. This approach enables the balance of the overall network traffic potentially minimizing congestion and consequently reducing job blocking. Two different strategies are explored. The first strategy is a novel signaling scheme applied to a GOBS network employing Active Routers. The Active Router reduces the job blocking probability, because the path used by the Data Burst to reach the Grid Job Resource is selected based on the network actual status. Since the Active Router maintains the network status always updated, the bursts are only dropped when is not possible to connect the source to the end node. Another study associated with this signaling scheme is the reservation time. It is demonstrated that this approach decreases the network blocking probability at the same time that decreases the time delay that a job suffers until it reaches the Grid service provider. In the second strategy, the Active Router only select the Grid Resource used to resolve the job, the path used to reach it is selected by the Grid client based on the probabilistic model for the link demands. The probabilistic model is used to predict a possible network usage based on the demands from all nodes to all nodes. The results obtained show overall performance improvement

Quality of service in optical burst switching networks

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

Performance and cost analysis of all-optical switching: OBS and OCS

This paper presents a study of performance and cost analysis of optical circuit switching (OCS) and optical burstswitching (OBS) by proposing the clear images of their node architectures and cost formulations. Then, we apply servicelevel agreement (SLA) of the high quality of service application in the terms of network blocking probability and averagenetwork delay to demonstrate OCS and OBS performances, their investment costs, and network dimensioning methodology.Applying SLA to our studies can illustrate the impact of contention resolution and blocking resolution schemes to theperformances and costs of OBS and OCS, accordingly. The simulations illustrate that OBS applying WC gives the bestperformance among all architectures deploying the same offered bandwidth. The investigations also show that WC is a majortechnique contributing high performance gain to both OCS and OBS. Especially for OBS, WC is an important scheme allowingOBS high data grooming property as its performance gain contributing to OBS is much higher than those of OCS. For thecost analysis, OCS is the most economic among all architectures. BA provides the most cost effectiveness among all OBScontention resolution schemes. Lastly, FDL is the least cost effective scheme as it gives little performance enhancement butadds more cost to the network