Köseoğlu, Mehmet2016-01-082016-01-082007http://hdl.handle.net/11693/14626Ankara : The Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering and the Institute of Engineering and Sciences of Bilkent University, 2007.Thesis (Master's) -- Bilkent University, 2007.Includes bibliographical references leaves 71-76It is predicted that grid computing will be available for consumers performing their daily computational needs with the deployment of high bandwidth optical networks. Optical burst switching is a suitable switching technology for this kind of consumer grid networks because of its bandwidth granularity. However, high loss rates inherent in OBS has to be addressed to establish a reliable transmission infrastructure. In this thesis, we propose mechanisms to reduce loss rates in an OBS grid scenario by using network-aware resource selection and adaptive offset determination. We first propose a congestion-based joint resource and path selection algorithm. We show that path switching and network-aware resource selection can reduce burst loss probability and average completion time of grid jobs compared to the algorithms that are separately selecting paths and grid resources. In addition to joint resource and path selection, we present an adaptive offset algorithm for grid bursts which minimizes the average completion time. We show that the adaptive offset based QoS mechanism significantly reduces the job completion times by exploiting the trade-off between decreasing loss probability and increasing delay as a result of the extra offset time.xi, 76 leaves, illustrations, graphsEnglishinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessGrid NetworksOptical Burst SwitchingGrid Resource SelectionPhotonic GridQA76.9.C58 K67 2007Computational grids (Computer systems)Computer networks--Design and construction.Optical communications--Design and construction.Packet switching (Data transmision)Switching theory.Thesis