A Noble Flow Rate Control based on Leaky Bucket Method for Multi-Media OBS Networks

Optical burst switching (OBS) has been proposed to realize the next generation Internet based on the wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) network technologies. In the OBS, the burst contention is one of the major problems. The deflection routing has been designed for resolving the problem. However, the deflection routing becomes difficult to prevent from the burst contentions as the network load becomes high. In this paper, we introduce a flow rate control methods to reduce burst contentions. We propose new flow rate control methods based on the leaky bucket algorithm and deflection routing, i.e. separate leaky bucket deflection method, and dynamic leaky bucket deflection method. In proposed methods, edge nodes which generate data bursts carry out the flow rate control protocols. In order to verify the effectiveness of the flow rate control in OBS networks, we show that the proposed methods improve the network utilization and reduce the burst loss probability through computer simulations.

Authors:

• Kentaro Miyoko
• Yoshihiko Mori
• Yugo Ikeda
• Yoshihiro Nishino
• Yong-Bok Choi
• Hiromi Okada

Keywords:

• Optical burst switching
• OBS
• flow rate control.

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