SLiT (strongly connected light-trail) for WDM rings

Author

Gumaste, Ashwin ; Ghani, Nasir ; Jain, Shakesh ; Zheng, Si Qing

Author_Institution

Indian Inst. of Technol., Bombay

fYear

0

fDate

0-0 0

Firstpage

152

Lastpage

157

Abstract

Light-trail as a candidate for dynamic provisioning and sub-wavelength grooming has been investigated before. A light-trail is an example of an intelligent unidirectional wavelength bus. In this article, we extend the conceptual advantages of light-trails to a bidirectional wavelength bus, which we call as SLiT or strongly connected light-trails. We investigate and propose new node architecture for demonstration of SLiTs in a WDM ring network. To enable communication in a SLiT network we propose a stable and convergent protocol for dynamic bandwidth arbitration as well as for governing the virtual topology. We compare the performance of SLiT networks with light-trail network and other contemporary solutions through a simulations study

Keywords

optical fibre networks; protocols; telecommunication network topology; wavelength division multiplexing; SLiT; WDM ring network; bidirectional wavelength bus; convergent protocol; dynamic bandwidth arbitration; dynamic provisioning; intelligent unidirectional wavelength bus; strongly connected light-trail; subwavelength grooming; virtual topology; Bandwidth; Circuit simulation; Circuit topology; Communication system control; Lighting control; Network topology; Optical fiber networks; Protocols; WDM networks; Wavelength division multiplexing; dynamic provisioning; light-trail; node architecture;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Networks, 2006 International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Istanbul

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0491-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISCN.2006.1662525

Filename

1662525