Performance comparison of share-per-link and share-per-node optical cross connect in WDM networks

Author

Zhang, Lei ; Li, Lemin

Author_Institution

Nat. Key Lab of Broadband Opt. Transmission & Commun. Networks, Univ. of Electron. Sci. & Technol. of China, Chengdu, China

Volume

1

fYear

2002

fDate

29 June-1 July 2002

Firstpage

840

Abstract

The performances of two kinds of OXC (optical cross connect): share-per-link OXC and share-per-node OXC, are compared in this paper. A heuristic algorithm is proposed to decide how many wavelength converters are equipped in the share-per-node OXC. Then through unequally distributing the wavelength converters in different links of the share-per-link OXC, the performance of share-per-link OXC is under study, by simulation in three networks, the result shows that it is better than that of share-per-link OXC whose wavelength converters are equally distributed in each link, and it is the same as that of share-per-node OXC in some nodes.

Keywords

optical wavelength conversion; wavelength division multiplexing; WDM networks; heuristic algorithm; optical cross connect; performance comparison; share-per-link OXC; share-per-node OXC; simulation; wavelength converters; All-optical networks; Costs; Heuristic algorithms; Intelligent networks; Optical fiber networks; Optical packet switching; Optical wavelength conversion; WDM networks; Wavelength conversion; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications, Circuits and Systems and West Sino Expositions, IEEE 2002 International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7547-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCCAS.2002.1180744

Filename

1180744