Title :
A new strategy for employing wavelength conversion in WDM optical networks
Author :
Listanti, Marco ; Berdusco, Massimo ; Sabella, Roberto
Author_Institution :
INFOCOM Dept., Rome Univ., Italy
Abstract :
Here we propose a new strategy for wavelength conversion in WDM networks, and a new algorithm that allows the strategy to be adopted, which aim the same performance of virtual wavelength path (VWP) to be reached, but with a strongly reduced number of wavelength converters. This means a significant saving in cost and complexity of the optical cross connects (OXC)
Keywords :
optical fibre networks; optical frequency conversion; wavelength division multiplexing; WDM optical networks; algorithm; optical cross connects; virtual wavelength path; wavelength conversion; Intelligent networks; Optical fiber networks; Optical wavelength conversion; Spine; WDM networks; Wavelength assignment; Wavelength converters; Wavelength division multiplexing;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Annual Meeting, 1997. LEOS '97 10th Annual Meeting. Conference Proceedings., IEEE
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-3895-2
DOI :
10.1109/LEOS.1997.645519