Title
Optimal nonuniform wavebanding in WDM mesh networks
Abstract
Grouping together a set of consecutive wavelengths in a WDM network and switching them together as a single waveband could achieve savings in switching costs of an optical cross-connect. This technique is known as waveband switching. While previous work has focused on either uniform band sizes or nonuniform band sizes considering a single node or ring networks, in this paper we focus on optimizing the number of wavebands and their sizes for mesh topologies. We formulate a problem of optimizing the number of wavebands in a mesh network for a given set of lightpaths. The objective of the band minimization problem is to minimize the number of nonuniform wavebands in the network while satisfying the traffic requests. We formulate an integer linear program and propose efficient heuristics. Simulation results are presented to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approaches under static traffic case. Our results show that the number of switching elements can be reduced by a large amount using waveband switching compared to wavelength switching. We also apply the proposed waveband strategy to the dynamic stochastic traffic case and evaluate the network performance in terms of blocking probability through numerical simulations.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1007/s11107-015-0583-2
Photonic Network Communications
Keywords
Field
DocType
Band optimization,Mesh networks,Waveband switching,Wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) networks
Wavelength-division multiplexing,Integer,Wdm mesh networks,Mesh networking,Computer science,Computer network,Network topology,Heuristics,Linear programming,Network performance
Conference
Volume
Issue
ISSN
31
3
1572-8188(Series Online ISSN)1387-974X(Series Print ISSN)
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.34
8
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jingxin Wu1324.51
Suresh Subramaniam21050124.36
Hiroshi Hasegawa31815.70