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An assembly and offset assignment scheme for self-similar traffic in optical burst switching

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Main Author: Muwonge, Benon Kagezi
Other Authors: Chan, H Anthony
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: Department of Electrical Engineering 2014
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spelling oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/5146 An assembly and offset assignment scheme for self-similar traffic in optical burst switching Muwonge, Benon Kagezi Chan, H Anthony Electrical Engineering Includes bibliographical references. Optical Burst Switching (OBS) is a viable technology for the next generation core network. We propose an FEC-assembly scheme that efficiently assembles self-similar traffic and a Pareto-offset assignment rather than a constant offset assignment. Two buffers, a packet buffer and a burst buffer, are implemented at the Label Edge Router (LER), buffering traffic in the electronic domain. The assembler, between the packet and burst buffers, is served by the packet queue while the assembler serves the burst queue. We outline advantages of why burst assembly cannot be implemented independent of offset assignment. The two schemes must be implemented in a complementary way if QoS is to be realized in an OBS network. We show that there is a direct relation between OBS network performance with burst assembly and offset assignment. We present simulation results of the assembly and offset assignment proposals using the ns2 network simulator. Our results show that the combination of the proposed FEC-Based assembly scheme with the proposed Pareto-offset assignment scheme give better network performance in terms of burst drop, resource contention and delay. Key to any traffic shaping is the nature traffic being shaped. This work also compares performance of both traditional exponential traffic with realistic Self-Similar traffic of Internet traffic on the proposed assembly and offset assignment schemes. In our simulations, we assume that all Label Switch Routers (LSR) have wavelength converters and are without optical buffers. We use Latest Available Unused Channel with Void Filling (LAUC-VF) scheduling scheme and use Just Enough Time (JET) reservation scheme. 2014-07-31T10:54:28Z 2014-07-31T10:54:28Z 2006 Master Thesis Masters MSc http://hdl.handle.net/11427/5146 eng application/pdf Department of Electrical Engineering Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment University of Cape Town
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An assembly and offset assignment scheme for self-similar traffic in optical burst switching
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title An assembly and offset assignment scheme for self-similar traffic in optical burst switching
title_full An assembly and offset assignment scheme for self-similar traffic in optical burst switching
title_fullStr An assembly and offset assignment scheme for self-similar traffic in optical burst switching
title_full_unstemmed An assembly and offset assignment scheme for self-similar traffic in optical burst switching
title_short An assembly and offset assignment scheme for self-similar traffic in optical burst switching
title_sort assembly and offset assignment scheme for self similar traffic in optical burst switching
topic Electrical Engineering
url http://hdl.handle.net/11427/5146
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