This paper presents a novel framework for IP Differentiated Services (DiffServ) over optical burst switching (OBS), namely, DS-OBS. The network architecture, functional model of edge nodes and core nodes, the control ...This paper presents a novel framework for IP Differentiated Services (DiffServ) over optical burst switching (OBS), namely, DS-OBS. The network architecture, functional model of edge nodes and core nodes, the control packet format, a novel burst assembly scheme at ingress nodes and scheduling algorithm of core nodes are presented. The basic idea is to apply DiffServ capable burst assembly at ingress nodes and perform different per hop behavior (PHB) electronic treatments for control packets of different QoS class services at core nodes. Simulation results show that the proposed schemes can provide the best differentiated service for expedited forwarding (EF), assured forwarding (AF) and best effort (BE) services in terms of end-to-end delay, throughput and IP packet loss probability. Keywords IP quality of service - differentiated service - per hop behavior - optical burst switching NoteThis work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No.90304004), the National Hi-Tech Development 863 Program of China (Grant No.2003AA121540), and the research grants by the Ministry of Education of China (Grant No.204125), the Chongqing Education Commission (Grant No.050309) and the Chongqing Science Commission.展开更多
文摘This paper presents a novel framework for IP Differentiated Services (DiffServ) over optical burst switching (OBS), namely, DS-OBS. The network architecture, functional model of edge nodes and core nodes, the control packet format, a novel burst assembly scheme at ingress nodes and scheduling algorithm of core nodes are presented. The basic idea is to apply DiffServ capable burst assembly at ingress nodes and perform different per hop behavior (PHB) electronic treatments for control packets of different QoS class services at core nodes. Simulation results show that the proposed schemes can provide the best differentiated service for expedited forwarding (EF), assured forwarding (AF) and best effort (BE) services in terms of end-to-end delay, throughput and IP packet loss probability. Keywords IP quality of service - differentiated service - per hop behavior - optical burst switching NoteThis work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No.90304004), the National Hi-Tech Development 863 Program of China (Grant No.2003AA121540), and the research grants by the Ministry of Education of China (Grant No.204125), the Chongqing Education Commission (Grant No.050309) and the Chongqing Science Commission.