Comparison of SDH/SONET-WDM multi-layer networks with static and dynamic optical plane

Authors:
Martin KöHn
Affiliations:
Institute of Communication Networks and Computer Engineering (IKR), University of Stuttgart, Pfaffenwaldring 47, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany
Venue:
Optical Switching and Networking
Year:
2005

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Abstract

SDH/SONET-WDM multi-layer networks are a very attractive solution to cope with the increasing dynamics and capacities in today's core networks. In SDH/SONET multi-layer networks, client layer SDH/SONET connections are groomed to wavelength channels and transported using end-to-end lightpaths. Also, intermediate grooming can yield to a more efficient utilization of network resources. In this paper, two principal SDH/SONET-WDM multi-layer network architectures are investigated covering the dynamics either only in the electrical layer or in both layers, respectively. In order to show benefits and drawbacks for the introduction of dynamics in the optical plane of today's backbone networks, we present a detailed performance evaluation based on simulation studies and compare both architectures for different total network capacities and grooming strategies. We also systematically analyze the traffic composition which until now has only rarely been investigated. We show that changes in the traffic pattern can be covered by a dynamic optical plane. Further, we figure out the timescale for switching operations in the optical layer which is at least two orders of magnitude below the connection's interarrival rate.