Evaluation of power consumption of Spanke Optical Packet Switch

Author

Eramo, V. ; Miucci, E. ; Cianfrani, A. ; Germoni, A. ; Listanti, M.

Author_Institution

DIET, Univ. of Rome Sapienza, Rome, Italy

fYear

2011

fDate

28-30 Sept. 2011

Firstpage

501

Lastpage

506

Abstract

The power consumption of an Optical Packet Switch equipped with SOA technology based Spanke switching fabric is evaluated. Sophisticated analytical models are introduced to evaluate the power consumption versus the offered traffic, the main switch parameters, and the used device characteristics. The impact of Amplifier Spontaneous Emission (ASE) noise generated by a transmission system on the power consumption is investigated. As a matter of example for 32 × 32 switches supporting 64 wavelengths and offered traffic equal to 0,8, the average energy consumption per bit is 5,07 · 10^-2 nJ/bit and increases if ASE noise introduced by the transmission systems is increased.

Keywords

optical switches; packet switching; semiconductor optical amplifiers; ASE noise; SOA technology; Spanke switching fabric; amplifier spontaneous emission; energy consumption; optical packet switch; power consumption; transmission system; Energy consumption; Noise; Optical switches; Optical wavelength conversion; Power demand; Semiconductor optical amplifiers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

ICT Convergence (ICTC), 2011 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Seoul

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-1267-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICTC.2011.6082648

Filename

6082648