DocumentCode
786382
Title
Performance evaluation of optical cross connect architectures under an efficient wavelength assignment
Author
Eramo, V. ; Listanti, M.
Author_Institution
Dipt. di Scienza e Tecnica dell´´Informazione e della Communicazione, Rome Univ., Italy
Volume
6
Issue
7
fYear
2002
fDate
7/1/2002 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
294
Lastpage
296
Abstract
In this letter we evaluate the performance of optical cross connect (OXC) architectures with wavelength conversion capability and in which the number of wavelength converters (WCs) is optimized by means of WC sharing. Dimensioning models of WCs are proposed and the number of WCs is evaluated according to an efficient wavelength assignment that allows to obtain a high saving of WCs.
Keywords
optical communication equipment; optical switches; optical wavelength conversion; wavelength division multiplexing; OXC architectures; dimensioning models; efficient wavelength assignment; optical cross connect architectures; performance evaluation; wavelength conversion; wavelength converters; Costs; Optical fiber networks; Optical saturation; Optical switches; Optical wavelength conversion; Switching converters; WDM networks; Wavelength assignment; Wavelength converters; Wavelength division multiplexing;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Communications Letters, IEEE
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
1089-7798
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/LCOMM.2002.801308
Filename
1018755
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