Feedback-based Load Balancing Routing for Optical Burst Switching Networks

An Optical Burst Switching (OBS) network provides preferable broadband infrastructure, and is a promising strong candidate for the future optical Internet. However, there is a major deficiency of the OBS, which occurs when multiple bursts contend for the same link and leads to bursts loss. As an effective method to resolve the above important issue of OBS networks, deflection routing has been proposed. A simple deflection routing without proper routing control cannot sufficiently distribute the traffic of bursts and guarantee ideal performance of OBS particularly for heavy traffic condition. In this paper, we propose a new approach for deflection routing in order to reduce the burst loss and minimize end-to-end delay. The simulation results show that the proposed scheme improves the network utilization and minimize both the burst loss probability and end-to-end delay.