Evaluation of Burst Loss Rate of an Optical Burst Switching (OBS) Network with Wavelength Conversion Capability

Abstract: This paper presents a new analytical model for calculating burst loss rate (BLR) in a slotted optical burst switched network. The analytical result leads to a framework which provides guidelines for optical burst switched networks. Wavelength converter is used for burst contention resolution. The effect of several design parameters such as burst arrival probability, wavelength conversion capability, number of slots per burst and number of wavelengths is incorporated on the above performance measure. We also extend the analytical result of BLR for different types of service classes where each service class has a reserved number of wavelengths in a network with fixed number of wavelengths. We also introduce an algorithm to calculate the resultant number of wavelength for each service classes depending on the various scenarios.