Circuit Emulation in Optical Packet-Switched WDM Ring Network 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 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.