Quality Of Service Differentiation Schemes Research Articles

Delay-Aware Medium Access Schemes for WSN-Based Partial Discharge Measurement

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are widely preferred measurement and monitoring tools for a large variety of industrial and environmental applications thanks to their low-cost, energy-efficiency, flexibility, and ease of deployment. However, the use of WSNs for measuring and monitoring industrial applications generating data at high rates, such as online monitoring of partial discharge activities in high voltage equipment in the power grid, presents a significant challenge for the system operators. In such applications, packet arrival rates could increase rapidly due to the occurrence of cascaded faults in the monitored environment. The WSNs with multihop topologies could experience excessive delays and an increase in packet drop of vital data due to the overwhelming increase in the packet arrival rates. Therefore, there should be an optimum operating point of the network where high packet arrival rates and low latency can be maintained at the same time. Thus, there is an immediate need for carefully designed quality of service (QoS) differentiation schemes that can guarantee the delivery of critical data with minimum latency and least loss. In this paper, we present a QoS differentiation scheme for high priority data in multihop WSNs based on an optimization scheme. Analytical and simulation results show that our proposed scheme significantly reduces the delay while maintaining high data delivery ratios and energy efficiency of the network.

Topology-aware wavelength partitioning for DWDM OBS networks: A novel approach for absolute QoS provisioning

Optical Burst Switching (OBS) is a promising switching technology for the next generation all-optical networks. An OBS network without wavelength converters and fiber delay lines can be implemented simply and cost-effectively using the existing technology. However, this kind of networks suffers from a relatively high burst loss probability at the OBS core nodes. To overcome this issue and consolidate OBS networks with QoS provisioning capabilities, we propose a wavelength partitioning approach, called Optimization-based Topology-aware Wavelength Partitioning approach (OTWP). OTWP formulates the wavelength partitioning problem, based on the topology of the network, as an Integer Linear Programming (ILP) model and uses a tabu search algorithm (TS) to resolve large instances efficiently. We use OTWP to develop an absolute QoS differentiation scheme, called Absolute Fair Quality of service Differentiation scheme (AFQD). AFQD is the first absolute QoS provisioning scheme that guarantees loss-free transmission for high priority traffic, inside the OBS network, regardless of its topology. Also, we use OTWP to develop a wavelength assignment scheme, called Best Effort Traffic Wavelength Assignment scheme (BETWA). BETWA aims to reduce loss probability for best effort traffic. To make AFQD adaptive to non-uniform traffic, we develop a wavelength borrowing protocol, called Wavelength Borrowing Protocol (WBP). Numerical results show the effectiveness of the proposed tabu search algorithm to resolve large instances of the partitioning problem. Also, simulation results, using ns-2, show that: (a) AFQD provides an excellent quality of service differentiation; (b) BETWA substantially decreases the loss probability of best effort traffic to a remarkably low level for the OBS network under study; and (c) WBP makes AFQD adaptive to non-uniform traffic by reducing efficiently blocking probability for high priority traffic.

QoS differentiation scheme with multiple burst transmission and virtual resource reservation for optical burst switching networks

We propose what we believe to be a new scheme to provide basic quality of service (QoS) in optical burst switching networks. Our proposal consists of multiple burst transmission (MBT) and virtual resource reservation (VRR). With MBT, consecutive bursts headed to the same destination are serially transmitted, and, at the transmission of high-priority bursts, the wavelength resource reserved by the head burst is kept reserving for the following bursts. We call it VRR. Computer simulations show that our proposal offers a larger differentiation of burst loss than the conventional offset-based QoS differentiation scheme. Also, it can improve the burst loss rate of both high-priority and low-priority bursts. Moreover, it can minimize the burst loss rate of high-priority bursts even when the high-priority traffic occupies a large percentage of the network traffic. The proposed scheme can be applied to the future multiservice optical network architecture.

Evaluation of QoS differentiation mechanisms in asynchronous bufferless optical packet-switched networks

Existing quality of service differentiation schemes for today's IP over point-to-point optical WDM networks take advantage of electronic RAM to implement traffic management algorithms in order to isolate the service classes. Since practical optical RAM is not available, these techniques are not suitable for a future all-optical network. Hence, new schemes are needed to support QoS differentiation in optical packet-switched (OPS) networks. In this article we first present an overview of existing QoS differentiation mechanisms suitable for asynchronous bufferless OPS. We then compare the performance of the presented schemes and qualitatively discuss implementation issues, in order to evaluate the mechanisms. In particular, we present an evaluation framework, which quantifies the throughput reduction observed when migrating from a best effort scenario to a service-differentiated scenario. Our study shows that preemption-based schemes have the best performance, but also the highest implementation complexity

QoS Differentiation in Asynchronous Bufferless Optical Packet Switched Networks

Optical Packet/Burst Switched networks (OPS/OBS) have emerged as promising all-optical network architectures for future core networks due to good resource utilization and the ability to handle high line speeds in a cost-efficient way. Regarding these networks, Quality of Service (QoS) differentiation should be provided in order to give sufficient QoS to real-time applications, and to utilize network resources optimally. In this paper, we present three fundamental different QoS differentiation schemes suitable for asynchronous bufferless OPS. We present analytical models and derive explicit results for the packet loss rates. We then present a general evaluation framework followed by a comparison study of the considered QoS differentiation schemes. Simulation and analytical results show that QoS differentiation schemes based on preemption have better performance than drop based and access-restriction based QoS differentiation schemes.