Optimizing electrical power consumption in SOA based optical packet switching nodes

Shaotang Zhang; Weisheng Hu; Weiqiang Sun; Hao He

doi:10.1117/12.905434

15 December 2011 Optimizing electrical power consumption in SOA based optical packet switching nodes

Shaotang Zhang, Weisheng Hu, Weiqiang Sun, Hao He

Proceedings Volume 8310, Network Architectures, Management, and Applications IX; 83100Y (2011) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.905434
Event: SPIE/OSA/IEEE Asia Communications and Photonics, 2011, Shanghai, China

Abstract

Since the underlying demand for network capacity can be satisfied only by extremely increasing transmission bit rate, processing speed, and switching capacity, it definitely will lead to increased power consumption of network nodes. Energy crisis is global crisis nowadays and it has brought up many problems. Power consumption is becoming a crucial issue in designing high-performance network devices. This paper studies the power consumption model of a kind of Optical Packet Switching (OPS) node based on Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers (SOA). Our results show that by dynamically adjusting the bias current of SOAs, the power consumption on an OPS node can be reduced considerably, especially when the traffic distribution across multiple ports is not balanced and inter-nodal distances vary. The total electrical power consumption can be cut off significantly. We also show the power consumption can be further reduced by jointly optimizing the thermoelectric cooler current.

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Shaotang Zhang, Weisheng Hu, Weiqiang Sun, and Hao He "Optimizing electrical power consumption in SOA based optical packet switching nodes", Proc. SPIE 8310, Network Architectures, Management, and Applications IX, 83100Y (15 December 2011); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.905434

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