Title
Cross-layer adaptive routing and wavelength assignment in all-optical networks
Abstract
In WDM all-optical networks where electrical regeneration is not available, physical impairments due to propagation in the fibers, amplifier noise, and leaks between channels and in the switches cannot be removed at the physical layer. These effects cause calls, especially between physically distant nodes, to be rejected because they cannot meet minimum Quality of Transmission (QoT) requirements, as measured by signal bit-error rates. It is possible to mitigate physical layer effects at the network layer using appropriate Routing and Wavelength Assignment (RWA) algorithms. We present new RWA algorithms which account for physical impairments in their design and increase QoT and fairness among users without sacrificing low blocking probabilities in metropolitan-sized networks. We also present RWA algorithms that can sharply decrease blocking probabilities in regional-sized networks using optional channel coding. All algorithms are evaluated through simulation in realistic scenarios and shown to successfully mitigate crosstalk effects and to perform better in terms of QoT and network access fairness than traditional algorithms.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1109/JSACOCN.2008.031207
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
Keywords
Field
DocType
channel coding,error statistics,optical crosstalk,optical fibre networks,telecommunication network routing,wavelength assignment,wavelength division multiplexing,WDM all-optical network,cross-layer adaptive routing,metropolitan-sized network,optional channel coding,quality of transmission,routing and wavelength assignment algorithm,signal bit-error rate
Wavelength-division multiplexing,Computer science,Network layer,Communication channel,Computer network,Routing and wavelength assignment,Physical layer,Access network,Wavelength,Bit error rate
Journal
Volume
Issue
Citations 
26
6
13
PageRank 
References 
Authors
1.12
16
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yvan Pointurier113520.65
Maïté Brandt-pearce259768.43
Suresh Subramaniam31050124.36
Bo Xu4131.12