Performance of AWG-based optical nodes with shared tunable wavelength converters

Author

Pattavina, Achille ; Rebughini, Marica ; Sipone, Antonio

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Inf., Politecnico di Milano, Milan

Volume

4

fYear

2005

fDate

2-2 Dec. 2005

Lastpage

2066

Abstract

In order to support the continuous growth of transmission capacity demand, optical packet switching technology is emerging as a strong candidate, promising to allow fast dynamic allocation of WDM channels, combined with a high degree of statistical resource sharing. This paper investigates the performance of optical packet-switching architectures employing input and/or shared buffer, based on an arrayed waveguide gratings device and tunable wavelength converters to route packets. Due to the high cost of optical components we analyze the switch performance when a pool of wavelength converters is fully shared among all input channels

Keywords

arrayed waveguide gratings; channel allocation; optical wavelength conversion; packet switching; statistical analysis; telecommunication network routing; wavelength division multiplexing; AWG-based optical nodes; WDM channels; arrayed waveguide gratings device; optical packet switching technology; route packets; shared buffer; shared tunable wavelength converters; statistical resource sharing; Arrayed waveguide gratings; Costs; Optical arrays; Optical buffering; Optical devices; Optical packet switching; Optical waveguides; Optical wavelength conversion; Resource management; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Global Telecommunications Conference, 2005. GLOBECOM '05. IEEE

Conference_Location

St. Louis, MO

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9414-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/GLOCOM.2005.1578028

Filename

1578028