Proposta para minimizar penalidade do tráfego de melhor esforço (BE) em redes óticas passivas ethernet (EPON): análise através de modelo híbrido analítico/simulado

Abstract

An improvement in the scheduling strategy based on weights of classes of traffic (CoS) is proposed in this work so as not to penalize too much the best-effort (BE) class type. As support, a hybrid analytical/simulated model to analyze the performance of upstream flows in Ethernet Optical Passive Networks (EPON) based on frame’s total delay, was developed. The modeling was done using Stochastic Colored Petri Networks (SCPN), from where the average queue size is obtained. Then, this average is used to analytically obtain the total delay. Besides the growth of multimedia real-time applications, the traditional traffic in the Internet (as web browser, email and instant messengers) is still, alone, responsible for 18% of the total traffic (excluding P2P traffic). Adding the P2P applications load, which traffic is also not sensible to delay, a 58% of participation is reached (only P2P traffic was responsible for 40% of the total traffic flowing thru the Internet in the year of 2010). Also in traffic’s forecasts for 2014 the Best Effort (BE) traffic will be still responsible for 40% of the total load in IP networks in the world. This numbers shows that the cares with this kind of traffic cannot be put in low relevance while giving more resources to classes that requires more quality of services. Having the scheduling strategy called IPA(Interleaved Polling with Adapting Cycle Time) as a base, this work demonstrates, by the improvement proposed, that is possible to reach lowers delays in the best effort traffic, without making the upper priority classes reach delays over the parameters recommended for which one.