Ring Optical Packet switched (OPS) network: Quality of Service (QoS) and traffic model

Optical Packet Switched (OPS) technology is under study as a promising solution for addressing the rapid growth of network-intensive applications having different Quality of Service (QoS) requirements. By employing Optical Circuit Switched (OCS) networks, an optimized Packet Loss Ratio (PLR), delay and Packet Delay Variation (PDV) performance can be obtained. It is, however, very demanding to offer a QoS comparable to OCS network through the OPS network in order to support a significant and growing number of applications. Thus, moving from OCS to OPS network, QoS is a critical issue. Hence, this paper analyzes the QoS requirements of network-intensive applications and services. Moreover, the paper derived an expression for performance metrics of a single OPS switch and ring OPS network. It is found that the International Telecommunication Union - Telecommunication (ITU-T) classification is extended with the new requirements of applications and services. For example, the upper bound delay, PDV and PLR of video streaming requires (100 ms, 400 ms), 50 ms and 1E−05 respectively. In this work, these values are improved as delay within 10 ms, PDV in micro seconds and PLR of 1E−07 at full load. It is also shown that a Fixed Delay Line (FDL) has to be considered when low PLR is required and when PDV and delay are not critical issues.