Online physical-layer impairment-aware routing with quality of transmission constraints in translucent optical networks

Author

Pachnicke, Stephan ; Luck, Nicolas ; Krummrich, Peter M.

Author_Institution

TU Dortmund, High Freq. Inst., Dortmund, Germany

fYear

2009

fDate

June 28 2009-July 2 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

We propose a novel online physical-layer impairment-aware routing algorithm taking into account a minimum quality of transmission (QoT) constraint, which must be satisfied in all cases, even if the network load is changing, and new channels are activated. Our online constraint-based routing (CBR) algorithm considers the actual network load to get a more exact prediction of the signal quality degradation due to (multi-channel) nonlinear fiber impairments. We present results showing that the proposed online CBR algorithm is superior to shortest path routing with maximum transparent distance constraints as well as offline CBR algorithms, which are based on worst-case Q-factor penalties, in terms of blocking probability.

Keywords

Q-factor; optical fibre networks; telecommunication network routing; CBR algorithms; QoT; blocking probability; online physical-layer impairment-aware routing; quality of transmission constraints; signal quality degradation; translucent optical networks; Costs; Crosstalk; Degradation; Frequency; Optical fiber cables; Optical fiber networks; Optical fiber polarization; Polarization mode dispersion; Wavelength assignment; Wavelength routing; all-optical networks; optical fiber nonlinearity; quality of transmission; routing and wavelength assignment;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Transparent Optical Networks, 2009. ICTON '09. 11th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Azores

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4825-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-4827-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICTON.2009.5185064

Filename

5185064