APPROACHES TO PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF PACKED SWITCHED OPTICAL RING

Marko Lacković

   An optical ring network employing optical packet switching is investigated. An analytical approach allowing the computation of end-to-end cell loss ratio (CLR) is proposed. The CLR dependence on topological parameters (number of stations), network parameters (number of wavelengths), and node structure (buffer capacity) is computed assuming a uniform traffic load. A discrete event simulation confirms the analytical results.

Keywords: ring topology, cell loss ratio, optical packet switching, queuing analysis, simulation

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