Browsing by Author "Chao, I-Fen"

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A High-Performance Optical Access and Control System for Packet-Switched WDM Metro Ring Networks
(2008)
Yuang, Maria C.
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Chao, I-Fen
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Lin, Yu-Min
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Lo, Bird C.
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Tien, Po-Lung
In this paper, we present the access and control design of a High-Performance Optical Packet-Switched WDM Metro ring Network (HOPSMAN). HOPSMAN has been designed for networks and nodes to be unconstrained by the number of wavelengths. It includes a handful of nodes that are equipped with fast optical slot erasers making bandwidth reusable and achieving greater bandwidth efficiency. In essence, HOPSMAN incorporates a versatile Medium Access Control (MAC) scheme, which embodies efficient and fair bandwidth allocation in accordance with a quota being exerted probabilistically. The quota is analytically derived with the number of slot-eraser-nodes taken into account. The scheme also employs a new notion of credit to regulate flexible access of remaining bandwidth that is suitable for the metro environment with bursty traffic. With the MAC scheme, HOPSMAN is shown to achieve exceptional throughput, delay, and fairness performance under a wide range of traffic settings via simulation results.
Circuit Emulation in Optical Packet-Switched WDM Ring Network for Wireless Backhaul
(2013)
Chao, I-Fen
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Yuang, Maria C.
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資訊工程學系
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Department of Computer Science
In this paper, we propose an integrated traffic control scheme (ITCS), which facilitates circuit emulation service (CES) for wireless backhaul over a previously proposed experimental optical packet-switched WDM ring network, HOPSMAN. To ensure efficient setup of CES connections, ITCS employs a simple mean-rate-based distributed admission control followed by a novel slot-marking reservation. The total connection setup delay is comprised of the setup queueing delay and slot-marking delay. While the slot-marking delay is nearly a ring time, the mean setup queueing delay is formally computed through an accurate approximation based on an M/G/m queueing analysis. Simulation results show that ITCS accommodates remarkably high CES traffic loads while satisfying a wide range of delay and jitter requirements for wireless backhaul.
HOPSMAN: An Experimental Optical Packet-Switched Metro WDM Ring Network With High-Performance Medium Access Control
(2010-02-01)
Yuang, Maria C.
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Chao, I-Fen
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Lo, Bird C.
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資訊工程學系
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Department of Computer Science
Future optical metropolitan area networks (MANs) have been expected to exploit advanced optical packet switching (OPS) technologies to cost-effectively satisfy a wide range of applications having time-varying and high bandwidth demands and stringent delay requirements. In this paper, we present the architecture and access control of our experimental high-performance OPS metro WDM slotted-ring network (HOPSMAN). HOPSMAN has a scalable architecture in which the node number is unconstrained by the wavelength number. It encompasses a handful of nodes (called server nodes) that are additionally equipped with optical slot erasers capable of erasing optical slots resulting in an increase in bandwidth efficiency. In essence, HOPSMAN is governed by a novel medium access control (MAC) scheme, called probabilistic quota plus credit (PQOC). PQOC embodies a highly efficient and fair bandwidth allocation in accordance with a quota being exerted probabilistically. The probabilistic quota is then analytically derived taking the server-node number and destination-traffic distribution into account. Besides, PQOC introduces a time-controlled credit for regulating a fair use of the remaining bandwidth, particularly in the metro environment with traffic of high burstiness. Extensive simulation results show that HOPSMAN with PQOC achieves exceptional delay-throughput performance under a wide range of traffic loads and burstiness.
HOPSMAN: An experimental testbed system for a 10-Gb/s optical packet-switched WDM metro ring network
(2008-07-01)
Yuang, Maria C.
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Chao, I-Fen
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Lo, Bird C.
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Tien, Po-Lung
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Chen, Jason J.
For future WDM MANs, optical packet-switching has been considered to be a promising paradigm that efficiently supports a wide range of Internet-based applications having time-varying and high bandwidth demands and stringent delay requirements. This article presents the design of an experimental testbed system for a high-performance optical packet-switched WDM metro ring network, HOPSMAN. HOPSMAN boasts three crucial features. First, it has a scalable architecture in which the number of nodes is unconstrained by the number of wavelengths. Second, HOPSMAN nodes are equipped with high-speed photonic hardware components, including fast tunable receivers and optical slot erasers, capable of performing speedy optical packet-switching operations. Third, HOPSMAN incorporates a MAC scheme that embodies efficient and dynamic bandwidth allocation, resulting in exceptional delay-throughput performance. The article presents the key hardware components by highlighting the challenging issues we faced and the solutions we proposed for the testbed implementation. Finally, to demonstrate the feasibility of HOPSMAN, the article describes the experimental setup and presents the results obtained from running a commercially available remote media player application on the system.
Toward Wireless Backhaul Using Circuit Emulation Over Optical Packet-Switched Metro WDM Ring Network
(2013-09-15)
Chao, I-Fen
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Yuang, Maria C.
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資訊工程學系
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Department of Computer Science
Optical WDM metro-ring networks have been considered to be promising solutions for wireless backhaul. In this paper, we propose an integrated traffic control scheme (ITCS), which facilitates circuit emulation service (CES) for wireless backhaul over a previously proposed experimental optical packet-switched WDM metro-ring network, HOPSMAN. The ITCS seamlessly integrates variable-bit-rate (VBR) CES wireless with connection-less best-effort data, satisfying stringent QoS requirements and retaining maximal network throughput. The ITCS ensures efficient setup of CES connections by employing a simple mean-rate-based distributed admission control followed by a novel slot-marking reservation. The total connection setup delay is comprised of the setup queueing delay and slot-marking delay. While the slot-marking delay is nearly a ring time, the mean setup queueing delay is formally computed through an accurate approximation based on an M/G/m queueing analysis. We show simulation results to demonstrate that the ITCS accommodates remarkably high CES traffic loads while satisfying a wide range of delay requirements for wireless backhaul. Taking the background best-effort traffic into account, ITCS achieves exceedingly low delay, jitter, and delay bound for CES under various traffic loads and burstiness.