3rd International IEEE/Create-Net Workshop on Networks for Grid Applications

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A Hybrid Optical Burst/Circuit Switched Ingress Edge Router for Grid-enabled Optical Networks

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/BROADNETS.2006.4374429,
    author={Georgios Zervas and Reza Nejabati and Dimitra Simeonidou and Anna Tzanakaki and Siamak Azodolmolky and Ioannis Tomkos},
    title={A Hybrid Optical Burst/Circuit Switched Ingress Edge Router for Grid-enabled Optical Networks},
    proceedings={3rd International IEEE/Create-Net Workshop on Networks for Grid Applications},
    publisher={IEEE},
    proceedings_a={GRIDNETS},
    year={2006},
    month={10},
    keywords={},
    doi={10.1109/BROADNETS.2006.4374429}
}
  • Georgios Zervas
    Reza Nejabati
    Dimitra Simeonidou
    Anna Tzanakaki
    Siamak Azodolmolky
    Ioannis Tomkos
    Year: 2006
    A Hybrid Optical Burst/Circuit Switched Ingress Edge Router for Grid-enabled Optical Networks
    GRIDNETS
    IEEE
    DOI: 10.1109/BROADNETS.2006.4374429
Georgios Zervas1,*, Reza Nejabati1,*, Dimitra Simeonidou1,*, Anna Tzanakaki2,*, Siamak Azodolmolky2,*, Ioannis Tomkos2,*
  • 1: Department of Electronic Systems Engineering, University of Essex, Colchester CO4 3SQ, UK
  • 2: Athens Information Technology, 19.5 Markopoulo Ave., 19002, Peania, Athens, Greece
*Contact email: gzerva@essex.ac.uk , rnejab@essex.ac.uk , dsimeo@essex.ac.uk , atza@ait.edu.gr, sazo@ait.edu.gr, itom@ait.edu.gr

Abstract

This paper presents a novel hybrid optical burst/circuit switched (OBCS) ingress edge router solution towards ubiquitous photonic Grid networking. It is based on the deployment of Grid application-aware packet classification and burst aggregation algorithms as well as agile and intelligent optical resource allocation. The proposed solution utilises a generic and highly scalable multi-dimension classification mechanism able to provide wire-speed classification at high bit rates up to 40 Gbps. The mechanism is responsible for per application switching (OBS/OCS) service selection and Grid Differentiated Service (GridDiffServ) provisioning. A CoS-Traffic-Time-LEngth-Service-oriented aSembly (COST2LESS) algorithm has been proposed to smooth the incoming Grid traffic and provide some CoS differentiation and initial results are presented. An agile optical data transmission mechanism has been also implemented to map Grid traffic asynchronously into optical bursts or wavelength channels (data plane) based on user/application-specific requirements. Furthermore an optical burst Ethernet switched (OBES) transport mechanism has been implemented to transport out-of- band control plane signalling information.

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2006-10-05
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IEEE
http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/BROADNETS.2006.4374429
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