Evaluations of physical and optical path level hierarchical networks to implement optical fast circuit switching

Takahiro Ogawa; Yoshiyuki Yamada; Hiroshi Hasegawa; Ken-ichi Sato

doi:10.1117/12.852134

19 November 2009 Evaluations of physical and optical path level hierarchical networks to implement optical fast circuit switching

Takahiro Ogawa, Yoshiyuki Yamada, Hiroshi Hasegawa, Ken-ichi Sato

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Proceedings Volume 7633, Network Architectures, Management, and Applications VII; 76330B (2009) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.852134
Event: Asia Communications and Photonics, 2009, Shanghai, Shanghai , China

Abstract

We propose an efficient network architecture to implement optical fast circuit switching. Future bandwidth abundant services such as Ultra High Definition Television (UHDTV), lambda-leased line services, and layer-one optical VPNs will generate less-bursty traffic that will fill wavelength path capacity. To realize effective optical fast switching networks, we introduce a hierarchical structure that combines physical network and optical path levels. A higher physical layer network (transit network) bridges several lower layer networks (local networks). The optical path layer is divided into two layers; a waveband path (a group of wavelength paths), and wavelength path layer. The transit networks employ large granular optical paths, waveband paths. The transit network creates an adaptive virtual topology that can efficiently carry wavelength path connection requests between lower layer network nodes. Numerical experiments show that the proposed hierarchical network greatly reduces the necessary number of optical switch ports at the blocking probability equivalent to that of the single layer network. The effectiveness of the proposed architecture are confirmed for various network sizes.

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Takahiro Ogawa, Yoshiyuki Yamada, Hiroshi Hasegawa, and Ken-ichi Sato "Evaluations of physical and optical path level hierarchical networks to implement optical fast circuit switching", Proc. SPIE 7633, Network Architectures, Management, and Applications VII, 76330B (19 November 2009); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.852134

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