Node pacing for optical packet switching

Alparslan, Onur; Arakawa, Shin’ichi; Murata, Masayuki

doi:10.1109/ps.2008.4804156

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“…A specific pacing algorithm is presented in [12], [14]. A similar technique was developed independently by Alparslan et al [19]. The hardware implementation of the traffic pacer presented in this paper is based on the algorithms described in these papers.…”

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High-performance implementation of in-network traffic pacing

Hanay

Dwaraki

Wolf

2011

2011 IEEE 12th International Conference on High Performance Switching and Routing

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Optical packet switching networks promise to pro vide high-speed data communication and serve as the foundation of the future Internet. A key technological problem is the very small size of packet buffers that can be implemented in the optical domain. Existing protocols, for example the transmission control protocol, do not perform well in such small-buffer networks.To address this problem, we have proposed techniques for actively pacing traffic to ensure that traffic bursts are reduced or eliminated and thus do not cause packet losses in routers with small buffers. In this paper, we present the design and prototype of a hardware implementation of a packet pacing system based on the NetFPGA system. Our results show that traffic pacing can be implemented with few hardware resources and without reducing system throughput. Therefore, we believe traffic pacing can be deployed widely to improve the operation of current and future networks.Index Terms-small-buffer network, traffic pacing, traffic burstiness, field-programmable gate array, prototype I. IN T RODUC TIONHigh-bandwidth data communication is one of the key foundations for the future Internet. Society's expectations to perform many daily activities over the Internet (e.g., entertain ment, person communication, e-government, health care, etc.) has increased the demand for raw bandwidth in the network. One technology that promises to meet these demands for bandwidth is optical networking. Optical fiber has long been used for long-haul, point-to-point data transmissions. However, the need to convert from the optical domain back to the electronic domain for switching has limited the throughput that can be achieved optical-electronic-optical (OEO) networks.To address these performance limitations, all-optical net works (AON) have been developed. Optical circuit switching (OCS) can be used to provide end-to-end light paths. While OCS has been successfully deployed for some use case scenar ios, the slow timescales at which connections can be set up and tom down does not match the timescales of highly dynamic end-to-end Internet connections. As alternative, optical packet switching (OPS) [1] and optical burst switching (OBS) [2], [3] has been proposed. In these networks, packets or short bursts of packets are switched independently in the optical domain.While OPS and OBS are promising approaches to optical networks that match the needs of current Internet protocols and dynamics, there are important technological challenges that need to be addressed. Apart from the difficulties of building a switch that operates in the optical domain, there are also challenges imposed by the basic operation of the Internet. Packet switching in the Internet is based on statistical multiplexing and traffic is forwarded opportunistically without prior resource reservations. As a result, traffic may compete for link bandwidth on the output port of a switch. To avoid packet losses, packet buffers are used to queue packets and thus absorb short periods of overload. In electronic networks an...

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High-performance implementation of in-network traffic pacing

Hanay

Dwaraki

Wolf

2011

2011 IEEE 12th International Conference on High Performance Switching and Routing

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“…A general solution to solving this problem is to apply pacing, which delays packets according to a special criteria that decreases short-term burstiness and hence smooth network traffic. We proposed [7] a node pacing algorithm that could pace traffic at edge or core nodes by using buffer occupancy information like that in RC traffic shaper [8]. Our algorithm solved the problems with the RC traffic shaper by using a piecewise-linear output rate control function and making use of average input-traffic rate information calculated inside the node.…”

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“…Furthermore, our algorithm was designed for variable length packet-based traffic unlike the RC traffic shaper and IFSA [9] that were designed for fixed cell ATM traffic. We briefly explained [7] some basics of our proposed architecture there. Here we present a detailed description of our algorithm and extensive simulation results on two meshed topologies.…”

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Node pacing for small optical RAM-buffered packet-switching networks

2011

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One of the difficulties with optical packet switched (OPS) networks is buffering optical packets in the network. The only available solution that can currently be used for buffering in the optical domain is using long fiber lines called fiber delay lines (FDLs), which have severe limitations. Moreover, the research on optical RAM presently being done is not expected to achieve a large capacity soon. However, the burstiness of Internet traffic causes high packet drop rates and low utilization in very small buffered OPS networks. We therefore propose a new node-based pacing algorithm for decreasing burstiness. We show that by applying some simple pacing at the edge or core backbone nodes, the performance of very small optical RAM buffered core OPS networks with variable-length packets can be notably increased.

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