Optimized TQ-MAP: An Adaptive Mapping Mechanism to Guarantee the Coherence of QoS Support from IP to OBS

Because of its scalability, the idea of coarse packet classification can be utilized to OBS networks. However, due to the limited number of priorities supported by OBS networks, we usually adopt a many-to-one composite class burst (CCB) assembly technique, e.g., N:1-CCB. In this kind of technique, there are two aspects related to scalable QoS support, i.e., mapping relationship and assembly resource allocation. This paper simultaneously takes the two aspects into consideration, and proposes a novel assembly mapping mechanism, called Optimized TQ-MAP, in which the most important feature is adaptivity. Based on nonlinear programming and differential calculus, it allocates the burst assembling capacity between classes fairly, efficiently and differentially, and matches IP QoS requirement with OBS QoS capacity as possible as it can. The simulation results show that Optimized TQ-MAP is more adaptive, and can efficiently guarantee the coherence of QoS support from IP to OBS.