Title : 
Traffic growth and network engineering in optical mesh networks
         
        
            Author : 
Roy, Rajesh ; Cuda, Davide ; Mukherjee, Biswanath
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Univ. of California, Davis, CA
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
Backbone networks employing optical meshes require periodic upgrades to support increasing traffic. Network-cut exhaustion probability is used to guide the upgrade (namely network engineering) of such networks.
         
        
            Keywords : 
optical fibre networks; probability; telecommunication traffic; backbone networks; network engineering; network-cut exhaustion probability; optical mesh networks; traffic growth; Bandwidth; High speed optical techniques; Mesh networks; Optical fiber networks; Optical packet switching; Probability; Routing; Spine; Steady-state; Telecommunication traffic;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Optical Communication, 2008. ECOC 2008. 34th European Conference on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Brussels
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
978-1-4244-2227-2
         
        
            Electronic_ISBN : 
978-1-4244-2228-9
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/ECOC.2008.4729522