Adaptability Analysis of Fluctuating Traffic for IP Switching and Optical Switching

The technological development of smart devices and Internet of Things(IoT)has brought ever-larger bandwidth and fluctuating traffic to existing networks.The analy⁃sis of network capital expenditure(CAPEX)is extremely important and plays a fundamen⁃tal role in further network optimizing.In this paper,an adaptability analysis is raised for IP switching and optical transport network(OTN)switching in CAPEX when the service bandwidth is fluctuating violently.This paper establishes a multi-layer network architec⁃ture through Clos network model and discusses impacts of maximum allowable blocking rate and service bandwidth standard deviation on CAPEX of IP network and OTN network to find CAPEX demarcation point in different situations.As simulation results show,when the bandwidth deviation mean rate is 0.3 and the maximum allowable blocking rate is 0.01,the hardware cost of OTN switching will exceed IP switching as the average band⁃width is greater than 6100 Mbit/s.When the service bandwidth fluctuation is severe,the hardware cost of OTN switching will increase and exceed IP switching as the single port rate is allowed in optical switching.The increasing of maximum allowable blocking rate can decrease hardware cost of OTN switching.Finally,it is found that Flex Ethernet(FlexE)can be used to decrease CAPEX of OTN switching greatly at this time.

An integrated self-healing algorithm for resilient packet ring

Resilient Packet Ring (RPR) is a Media Access Control (MAC) layer protocol that operates over a double counter-rotating ring network topology. RPR is designed to enhance Synchronous Digital Hierarchy(SDH) in order to handle data traffic more efficiently. Since Intelligent Protection Switching(IPS) is one of the key technologies in ring networks, RPR provides two intelligent protection algorithms: steering and wrapping. While wrapping in RPR in essence inherits the automatic protection switching(APS) algorithm of SDH, it also wastes the bandwidth on the wrapping ringlets and may result in severe congestion. Whereas steering in RPR provides high bandwidth utilization, its switching speed is low, because it is indeed a high layer's restoration algorithm. In this paper, integrated self-healing(ISH) algorithm as an effective algorithm for RPR is proposed, which synthesizes the merits of the two algorithms by transporting healing signal and computing routing in MAC layer. At last, the performance of ISH algorithm is analyzed and simulated.