OBCS: High performance burst transmission for achieving energy consumption

Abstract

Optical networks are a logical choice to meet the future communication demands, with optical fiber links offering huge bandwidth. OBS avoids the use of optical buffering and optical processing logic unlike in OPS but still achieves switching in optical domain. The OBS framework has been widely used in past years, for recent work use Optical Burst Chain switching (OBCS) to achieve high performance. Here switching unit is burst chain it consist of non-periodic bursts in one wavelength. We present extensive simulation result for throughput, delay and energy to demonstrate its superior performance over OBS networks.