ChinaCom2009-Multimedia Communications Symposium

Research Article

Simulative Investigation of Network Services for Resilient Packet Ring in Steering Mode

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/CHINACOM.2009.5339901,
        author={Wen-Fong Wang and Yu-Siang Sun and Ching-Sung Lu},
        title={Simulative Investigation of Network Services for Resilient Packet Ring in Steering Mode},
        proceedings={ChinaCom2009-Multimedia Communications Symposium},
        publisher={IEEE},
        proceedings_a={CHINACOM2009-MCS},
        year={2009},
        month={11},
        keywords={Resilient Packet Ring; protection; Steer; MPEG},
        doi={10.1109/CHINACOM.2009.5339901}
    }
    
  • Wen-Fong Wang
    Yu-Siang Sun
    Ching-Sung Lu
    Year: 2009
    Simulative Investigation of Network Services for Resilient Packet Ring in Steering Mode
    CHINACOM2009-MCS
    IEEE
    DOI: 10.1109/CHINACOM.2009.5339901
Wen-Fong Wang1,*, Yu-Siang Sun1,*, Ching-Sung Lu2,*
  • 1: Dept. Comp. and Comm. Engineering National Yunlin University of Science & Technology Douliu city, Yunlin
  • 2: Dept. of Information Engineering Tajen University Yan-Pu, Pingtung
*Contact email: wwf@yuntech.edu.tw, g9517726@yuntech.edu.tw, cslu@mail.tajen.edu.tw

Abstract

To recover link failure on resilient packet ring (RPR) networks, two protection mechanisms, steering and wrapping, defined in IEEE 802.17 can restore a failed network in less than 50ms, and maintain link connectivity between each node. In this study, we focus on the RPR steering mechanism and the properties of the three different traffic classes defined in RPR by conducting simulation. We find that the frame delay of protection in comparison with the normal condition is much higher. In the steering mechanism, the head nodes of protected ringlet sections can seize more bandwidth than their downstream nodes. To actually see the qualitative difference of the MPEG video transmitted in the RPR steering mechanism, we develop and realize a software-based networking environment to emulate the transmission of MPEG video traffic under protection modes. From the result, we can see the difference between the original video and emulated video.