Combining core drop policy and edge determinant threshold in TCP over OBS networks with retransmission

Shuping Peng; Zhengbin Li; Yongqi He; Anshi Xu

doi:10.1117/12.741781

19 November 2007 Combining core drop policy and edge determinant threshold in TCP over OBS networks with retransmission

Shuping Peng, Zhengbin Li, Yongqi He, Anshi Xu

Proceedings Volume 6783, Optical Transmission, Switching, and Subsystems V; 67831F (2007) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.741781
Event: Asia-Pacific Optical Communications, 2007, Wuhan, China

Abstract

We proposed a novel drop policy in the core nodes which is combined with the determinant strategy in the ingress edge nodes. The proposed drop policy is based on the field of Hop Number (HN) taken by the burst control packets, which is introduced to determine which burst should be dropped when the contention happened in the core nodes. In the drop policy, the long-hop traffic is given the high priority, and most of the retransmitted traffic is left to be short-hop traffic. Therefore, there is a trade-off between the short-hop traffic and the long-hop traffic. The determinant strategy in the edge nodes is an initialized threshold, Retransmission Number Threshold (RNT), which is introduced to determine whether to start a retransmission operation when NAK is received. The unnecessary retransmissions in the network are limited, and the burst loss rate is reduced. The mechanism also takes the upper layer, TCP layer, into account. When the network has already been in the state of real congestion, the retransmission will only deteriorate the network performance. In the case, the combined mechanism leaves the retransmission process to the TCP layer. It can improve the network performance cost-effectively.

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Shuping Peng, Zhengbin Li, Yongqi He, and Anshi Xu "Combining core drop policy and edge determinant threshold in TCP over OBS networks with retransmission", Proc. SPIE 6783, Optical Transmission, Switching, and Subsystems V, 67831F (19 November 2007); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.741781

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