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

Research Article

Rate-based Pacing for Optical Packet Switched Networks with Very Small Optical RAM

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/BROADNETS.2007.4550442,
        author={Onur Alparslan and Shin’ichi Arakawa and Masayuki Murata},
        title={Rate-based Pacing for Optical Packet Switched Networks with Very Small Optical RAM},
        proceedings={4th International IEEE Conference on Broadband Communications, Networks, Systems},
        publisher={IEEE},
        proceedings_a={BROADNETS},
        year={2010},
        month={5},
        keywords={http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=4550442},
        doi={10.1109/BROADNETS.2007.4550442}
    }
    
  • Onur Alparslan
    Shin’ichi Arakawa
    Masayuki Murata
    Year: 2010
    Rate-based Pacing for Optical Packet Switched Networks with Very Small Optical RAM
    BROADNETS
    IEEE
    DOI: 10.1109/BROADNETS.2007.4550442
Onur Alparslan1,*, Shin’ichi Arakawa1,*, Masayuki Murata1,*
  • 1: Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Osaka University, 1-5, Yamadaoka, Suita, 560-0871, Osaka, Japan
*Contact email: a-onur@ist.osaka-u.ac.jp, arakawa@ist.osaka-u.ac.jp, murata@ist.osaka-u.ac.jp

Abstract

We show that by applying rate-based pacing at the edge nodes, very small optical RAM buffers can be enough for high utilization and low packet drop ratio inside core optical packet-switched (OPS) networks.