Quality of Service in Heterogeneous Networks. 6th International ICST Conference on Heterogeneous Networking for Quality, Reliability, Security and Robustness, QShine 2009 and 3rd International Workshop on Advanced Architectures and Algorithms for Internet Delivery and Applications, AAA-IDEA 2009, Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, November 23-25, 2009 Proceedings

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Novel Analytical Delay Model and Burst Assembly Scheme for Wireless Mesh and Optical Burst Switching Convergence

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-642-10625-5_7,
        author={Jihene Rezgui and Abdeltouab Belbekkouche and Abdelhakim Hafid},
        title={Novel Analytical Delay Model and Burst Assembly Scheme for Wireless Mesh and Optical Burst Switching Convergence},
        proceedings={Quality of Service in Heterogeneous Networks. 6th International ICST Conference on Heterogeneous Networking for Quality, Reliability, Security and Robustness, QShine 2009 and 3rd International Workshop on Advanced Architectures and Algorithms for Internet Delivery and Applications, AAA-IDEA 2009, Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, November 23-25, 2009 Proceedings},
        proceedings_a={QSHINE},
        year={2012},
        month={10},
        keywords={MAN WMN OBS QoS DiffServ Wireless Optical Convergence},
        doi={10.1007/978-3-642-10625-5_7}
    }
    
  • Jihene Rezgui
    Abdeltouab Belbekkouche
    Abdelhakim Hafid
    Year: 2012
    Novel Analytical Delay Model and Burst Assembly Scheme for Wireless Mesh and Optical Burst Switching Convergence
    QSHINE
    Springer
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-10625-5_7
Jihene Rezgui1,*, Abdeltouab Belbekkouche1,*, Abdelhakim Hafid1,*
  • 1: University of Montreal
*Contact email: rezguiji@iro.umontreal.ca, belbekka@iro.umontreal.ca, ahafid@iro.umontreal.ca

Abstract

Wireless Mesh Networks (WMN) have attracted increasing attention from the research community as a high-performance and low-cost solution to last-mile broadband Internet access. In the other side, Optical Burst Switching (OBS) is a promising access technology that uses optical fiber with burst switching paradigm. In this paper, we propose a novel Metropolitan Area Network (MAN) architecture, called Optical Burst Wireless Mesh Architecture (OBWMA) which integrates WMN at the user access side and OBS at the core of the MAN. OBWMA aims to combine advantages of both WMNs and OBS networks, such as large coverage at low cost and bandwidth availability. We specify the details of the interconnection and the internetworking of WMNs and the OBS network in OBWMA. Moreover, we develop an analytical model to compute the end-to-end delay in OBWMA in order to support flow requests with delay constraints. Furthermore, we propose a Control Bridge (CB) that ensures Quality of Service (QoS) mapping at the border between the WMN and the OBS parts. Also, we propose a burst assembly scheme, called Adaptive Hybrid Burst Assembly scheme (AHBA). Simulation results using ns-2 demonstrate the feasibility of OBWMA and the validity of our analytical model.