RIS ID
9587
Abstract
Optical burst switches (OBSes) have been proposed to improve the utilization of a network of optical cross connect (OXCs). Current studies on OBS assume a network consisting of OBSes alone. While this is a reasonable assumption for evaluating a new technology, the question of how a network of OXCs can be evolved to a network of OBSes has not been studied. In this paper, we propose a hybrid architecture consisting of OBSes at the network edge and OXCs in the network core. This architecture allows carriers to gradually migrate from an OXC-based network to an OBS-based network with an improved network utilization. In addition, we use queueing analysis to study the performance of this new architecture.
Publication Details
This article was originally published as: Chou, CT, Safaei, F, Boustead, P, & Ouveysi, I, A hybrid optical network architecture consisting of optical cross connects and optical burst switches, Proceedings 12th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN'03), 20-22 October 2003, 53-58. Copyright IEEE 2003.