4th International IEEE Conference on Broadband Communications, Networks, Systems

Research Article

Group Schedule Serialized Traffic in Optical Switching Networks

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/BROADNETS.2007.4550429,
        author={Xiaojun  Cao and James Joseph and Jikai Li and Chunsheng Xin},
        title={Group Schedule Serialized Traffic in Optical Switching Networks},
        proceedings={4th International IEEE Conference on Broadband Communications, Networks, Systems},
        publisher={IEEE},
        proceedings_a={BROADNETS},
        year={2010},
        month={5},
        keywords={},
        doi={10.1109/BROADNETS.2007.4550429}
    }
    
  • Xiaojun Cao
    James Joseph
    Jikai Li
    Chunsheng Xin
    Year: 2010
    Group Schedule Serialized Traffic in Optical Switching Networks
    BROADNETS
    IEEE
    DOI: 10.1109/BROADNETS.2007.4550429
Xiaojun Cao1,*, James Joseph2,*, Jikai Li3,*, Chunsheng Xin4,*
  • 1: Department of Computer Science, Georgia State Universit Atlanta, GA 30303
  • 2: College of Computing and Information Sciences, Rochester Institute of Te Rochester, NY 14623
  • 3: Department of Computer Science, The College of New Jersey Ewing, NJ 08628
  • 4: Department of Computer Science, Norfolk State University 700 Park Avenue, Norfolk, VA 23504
*Contact email: xiaojuncao@ieee.org, jxj3015@rit.edu, jikaili@computer.org, cxin@nsu.edu

Abstract

In this paper, a new scheduling algorithm, Serialized Batch Scheduling (SBS) for Optical Burst Switching (OBS) networks is proposed. SBS aggregates and serializes bursts along shared path into one composite burst which is switched as a single unit. There are two important processes in SBS namely, batching and serializing. While the batching process chooses proper set of bursts to form the composite burst, the serializing process determines how to organize the OBS bursts within the composite burst and generates a corresponding composite control packet. Several SBS batching and serializing schemes are introduced and analyzed. Our study shows that the guard band and bursts overlap can be reduced in the proposed SBS, and therefore, the packet loss rate and the number of switch reconfigurations can be significantly reduced.