Translucent optical WDM networks for the next-generation backbone networks

Author

Ramamurthy, Byrav ; Yaragorla, Srinath ; Yang, Xi

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Nebraska Univ., Lincoln, NE, USA

Volume

1

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

60

Abstract

This paper proposes an alternate approach to fully transparent and fully opaque optical networks for operating a wavelength routed optical network. The architecture of the regeneration node that performs sparse regeneration (or translucency) is discussed. The regeneration demands generated from call blocking and signal quality requirements are addressed. Two implementation strategies for incorporating sparse regeneration are introduced and their relative merits are studied

Keywords

network topology; optical fibre networks; optical repeaters; probability; telecommunication network routing; wavelength division multiplexing; BER; blocking probability; call blocking; lightpaths; next-generation backbone networks; opaque optical networks; regeneration node architecture; signal quality; sparse regeneration; static with topology algorithm; translucent optical WDM networks; transparent optical networks; wavelength division multiplexing; wavelength routed optical network; Optical fiber networks; Spine; WDM networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Global Telecommunications Conference, 2001. GLOBECOM '01. IEEE

Conference_Location

San Antonio, TX

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7206-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/GLOCOM.2001.965080

Filename

965080