Performance analysis of an ingress switch in a JumpStart optical burst switching network

We consider an ingress optical burst switching (OBS) node employing the JumpStart signaling protocol. The switch serves a number of users, each connected to the switch with a fiber link that supports multiple wavelengths. Each wavelength is associated with a 3-state Markovian burst arrival process which permits short and long bursts to be modeled. We model the ingress switch as a closed multi-class non-product-form queueing network, which we analyze approximately by decomposition. Specifically, we develop new techniques to analyze the queueing network, first assuming a single class of customers, and subsequently multiple classes of customers. These analytical techniques have applications to general queueing networks beyond the one studied in this paper. We also develop computationally efficient approximate algorithms to analyze an ingress switch in the limiting case where the number of wavelengths is large. The algorithms have a good accuracy, and they provide insight into the effect of various system parameters on the performance of an ingress OBS switch. (C) 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.