Design of the optical path layer in multiwavelength cross-connected networks

  • Authors:
  • N. Wauters;P. Demeester

  • Affiliations:
  • Dept. of Inf. Technol., Ghent Univ.;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
  • Year:
  • 1996

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Abstract

We discuss the wavelength requirement for optical networks based on wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM). A mathematical model, to represent the routing and wavelength assignment in optical networks with or without wavelength conversion, is described, and metrics are defined to express the performance. A new heuristic for routing and wavelength assignment is proposed and compared with the Dijkstra algorithm and with a solution based on integer linear programming. The different techniques are applied to a variety of network examples with different traffic loads