A novel issue for the design of access interfaces in all optical slotted networks

Abstract

International audience; In this contribution, we consider a novel approach for efficiently supporting IP packets directly into a slotted optical wavelength- division-multiplexing (WDM) layer with several quality of service (QoS) requirements. The approach is based on aggregating IP packets, regardless of their final destinations, at fixed time intervals before the optical conversion phase. A QoS support access mechanism based on the strict priority discipline is evaluated by means of an analytical model. In this case, IP packet aggregation is performed in a loop manner by always beginning the aggregation cycle with the highest priority class. The aggregation cycle ends if the aggregate packet cannot accommodate more IP packets, or if the lowest priority class is reached. In order to overcome the drawbacks of the strict priority discipline, an algorithm depicting a probabilistic priority discipline is presented. The aggregation technique leads to increasing the filling ratio of an optical packet, and consequently, the bandwidth efficiency of an optical network, due to the multicast nature of the aggregation technique. In this context, the support of multicast in metropolitan area networks (MANs), with ring architectures, is presented. Furthermore, a new architecture is proposed in order to support the multicast aggregation technique in wide area networks (WANs)

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