Crosstalk aware light-path selection in optical wdm/dwdm networks

Physical layer impairments are the major limitation for the high speed optical WDM/DWDM networks. They significantly affect the signal quality resulting poor quality of transmission which is normally expressed in terms of bit-error rate. To cope of with the future demand, increase in the no of channels and data speed further enhances these impairments. Hence new techniques are needed, which mitigate these impairments and ensure a better quality of transmission. Among the physical layer impairments we have studied the impact of in-band crosstalk on transmission performance of a transparent WDM/DWDM network. Error probabilities and power penalties produced by crosstalk are also investigated. As traditional RWA scheme pays a little regard to the physical layer impairments and cannot provide optimized network performance in practical networks, we have proposed a novel BER constrained, FWM aware RWA algorithm. The performance of the proposed algorithm is demonstrated through simulation and the results show that our algorithm not only gives a guaranteed quality of transmission but also improves the network performance in terms of blocking probability

Performance of WDM transport networks

Wavelength division multiplexed point-to-point transport is becoming commonplace in wide area networks. With the expectation that the next step is end-to-end networking of wavelengths (in the optical domain without conversion to electronics), there is a need for new design techniques, a new understanding of the performance issues, and a new performance evaluation methodology in such networks. This paper describes approaches to that end, summarizes research results, and points to open problems

Quality of service estimation techniques for an optical virtual private network over wdm/dwdm network

Quality of Service (QoS) in optical virtual private network (OVPN) is a demanding factor for communication network application. To provide desired QoS, the control plane in an all optical network (AON) has to be designed to maximize the quality of an OVPN connections (OVPNC). The AON is generally characterized by various network and physical layer parameters, which are used by the OVPN control manager (OVPNCM) for the estimation of quality factor (Q-Factor) for a set of possible OVPNC. It is observed that, not only the network layer parameters, but also the physical layer parameters called as physical layer impairments (PLIs) have impact on connection quality. In optical networks, the PLIs are incurred by non-ideal optical transmission media and accumulate along the optical connection. The overall effect of PLIs can be analyzed to determine the feasibility of quality based OVPNC. It is important to understand the process and provide the network as well as the PLI information to the OVPNCM and use this information efficiently to compute feasible connections along with Q-Factor values. Based on these, four different QoS estimation techniques have been proposed here

Impairment -Aware Static Route and Wavelength Assignment in WDM Networks

Routing and Wavelength Assignment (RWA) is a fundamentally important aspect of WDM optical network design. RWA is performed to determine a route and wavelength for each demand requesting resources between a given source and destination node. Classic RWA has only been concerned with determining a route while only taking into account network layer wavelength availability constraints. In recent years the size of WDM optical communication networks has exponentially increased in size. Resulting in the use of very long fibers for interconnecting nodes. On these modern WDM networks, researchers have identified at the physical layer, linear and non-linear impairments. Impairment occurs during the propagation of optical signals across a fiber cable and within the optical switching fabric of routing equipment. These impairments have the potential to either, greatly reduce the efficiency of WDM optical networks, or to completely render lightpaths unusable. Impairment-aware routing and wavelength assignment (IA-RWA) takes different types of impairments of lightpaths into account, while performing the RWA. The use of IA-RWA improves the quality of transmission among lightpaths as well as reduce the blocking ratio. A new heuristic for IA-RWA has been reported in this thesis for use in WDM optical network planning and design. This heuristic takes both linear and non-linear impairments into account during the RWA process. The heuristic uses existing techniques from graph theory, operations research, and optical network design, to determine an IA-RWA in an efficient manner

Physical Layer Impairments Aware Dynamic Lightpath Provisioning In Mixed Line Rate Wdm Networks

Tez (Doktora) -- İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi, Fen Bilimleri Enstitüsü, 2014Thesis (PhD) -- İstanbul Technical University, Institute of Science and Technology, 2014Bu tez çalışmasında, fiziksel katman bozukluklarını dikkate alarak, çoklu veri iletişim hızlı ağlarda dinamik olarak gelen bağlantı istekleri için ısıkyolu kurma problemi ele alınmıştır. Problemde verilenler; dinamik olarak gelen farklı kapasitelerde bağlantı istekleri, fiziksel topoloji, fiziksel hatların taşıyabildiği dalgaboyu miktarı, ağın anlık durumu ve fiziksel katman bozukluklarını dikkate alırken kullanılacak olan parametrelerdir. Problemde istenilen ise; gelen bağlantı isteklerinin mümkün olduğu kadar fazlasını kurabilmek maksadı ile uygun yol ve dalgaboyunun bulunmasıdır. Bunu gerçekleştirirken, hem kurulacak olan ışıkyolunun sinyal kalitesinin kabul edilebilir bit hata oranını karşılaması, hem de sistemde daha önceden kurulmuş olan ışıkyollarının sinyal kalitesinin kabul edilebilir sınırların altına inmesini engellemek gerekmektedir. Bu tez çalışmasında, kurulabilen ışıkyolu miktarını artırmak maksadı ile ışıkyolunun sisteme giriş gücü de ayrıca ele alınmıştır.In this thesis, we studied the impairment-aware lightpath provisioning problem for dynamic connection requests in MLR networks. Given, a dynamic connection request with a given rate, physical topology, number of wavelengths carried by each fiber, current network state, and PLI parameters, our aim is to determine the route and wavelength over which the lightpath should be set up, in order to be able to maximize the number of established connections while satisfying the given bit-error rate (BER) for the incoming connection, and to avoid disrupting the existing lightpaths. We also evaluate the launch power of the lightpath to maximize the established connections.DoktoraPh