1st International ICST Workshop on Optical Burst/Packet Switching

Research Article

Small Girou Multicast with Deflection Routing in Optical Burst Switched Networks

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/BROADNETS.2006.4374322,
        author={Xiaodong Huang and Qingya She and Tao Zhang and Kejie Lu and Jason P.  Jue},
        title={Small Girou Multicast with Deflection Routing in Optical Burst Switched Networks},
        proceedings={1st International ICST Workshop on Optical Burst/Packet Switching},
        publisher={IEEE},
        proceedings_a={WOBS},
        year={2006},
        month={10},
        keywords={},
        doi={10.1109/BROADNETS.2006.4374322}
    }
    
  • Xiaodong Huang
    Qingya She
    Tao Zhang
    Kejie Lu
    Jason P. Jue
    Year: 2006
    Small Girou Multicast with Deflection Routing in Optical Burst Switched Networks
    WOBS
    IEEE
    DOI: 10.1109/BROADNETS.2006.4374322
Xiaodong Huang1,*, Qingya She1,*, Tao Zhang2,*, Kejie Lu3,*, Jason P. Jue1,*
  • 1: Department of Computer Science, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX 75083
  • 2: Department of Computer Science, New York Institute of Technology, Old Westbury, NY 11568
  • 3: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez, Mayaguez, PR 00681
*Contact email: xxh020100@utdallas.edu, qxs032000@utdallas.edu, tzhang@nyit.edu, lukejie@uprm.edu, jjue@utdallas.edu

Abstract

In this paper, we propose an ACO-based algorithm that can adaptively balance the network load to mitigate congestion, and hence reduce the overall loss of packets in an OPS network. In addition, the proposed algorithm is fault-tolerant, with the recovery from a failed link or node starting even before detection and localization of the failure event. Since both routing and restoration rely on pheromone levels laid by ant-like agents, any failure will be promptly perceived by some ants, which will then try to circumvent the affected part of the network, thus adapting the routing to the new topology.