ENSC833 TEAM01
Spring 2019
DEFLECTION ROUTING IN BUFFER-LESS NETWORKS
Performance and analysis using ns-3
ABSTRACT
In Buffer-less networks such as Optical Burst Switch (OBS) that are high-bandwidth backbone networks (Ethernet interfaces of 40 Gigabit Ethernet and 100 Gigabit speed [1]), packets are assembled into bursts that are transmitted over optical fibers [2]. Burst blocks or burst drops occur due to contention in these complex networks [3]. Contentions occur when the buffer space is unavailable for packet bursts that are scheduled for transmission [4]. Deflection routing is used to deflect the traffic flow to a different next-hop [5]. In this project we plan to study the performance of Deflection Routing in resolving packet contention problems in complex networks such as OBS using ns-3 network simulator [6].
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Acknowledgement
We would like to thank our advisor Dr. Ljiljana Trajkovic for all her guidance and continuous support throughout this project. We would like to thank you for encouraging our study and opening the doors of an amazing lab where we met wonderful, smart, and committed people. Your advice on both, study as well as on our career have been priceless. We are also deeply grateful to our Teaching Assistant Zhida Li for the brainstorming discussions and guidance. We have learned so much from you. We also want to thank and acknowledge Dr. Soroush Haeri and Dr. Ljiljana Trajkovic for the iDef Framework and the source code that we studied and ran test cases for computing the performance of Deflection Routing algorithms.
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REFERENCES
[1] "High Speed Networks," Lightwave, [Online]. Available: https://www.lightwaveonline.com/network-design/high-speed-networks.html. [Accessed 9 Feb 2019].
[2] S. Haeri and L. Trajkovic´, "Deflection Routing in Complex Networks," in Complex Systems and Networks, Berlin, Springer, 2015, pp. 395-422.
[3] C. Qioa and M. Yoo, "Optical burst switching (OBS) - a new paradigm for an optical internet," Journal of High Speed Networks, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 69-84, Mar. 1999.
[4] A. Zalesky, H. Vu, Z. Rosberg, E. Wong and M. Zukerman, "OBS contention resolution performance," Performance Evaluation, vol. 64, no. 4, p. 357–373, May 2007.
[5] D. H. Patel and D. K. Kothari, "Overview and framework for dynamic deflection contention resolution in OBS network," in 2013 Nirma University International Conference on Engineering (NUiCONE), Ahmendabad, India, Nov 2013.
[6] S. Haeri and L. Trajkovic, "Intelligent deflection routing in buffer-less networks," IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, vol. 45, no. 2, pp. 316-327, Feb. 2015.
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Malsawmtluangi, Lucy (lmalsawm@sfu.ca)
Wang, Renjie (renjiew@sfu.ca)