Performance comparison of hybrid 1-D WDM/OCDMA and 2-D OCDMA towards future access network migration scenario

In this paper, we provide a performance comparison and analysis between a hybrid 1-D WDM/OCDMA system and a 2-D WHTS OCDMA system. In the hybrid system, OOC is employed as users code sequence of the OCDMA dimension. The simulation results show that the hybrid system presents better performance than the 2-D WHTS OCDMA system, and show also that under a standard BER scenario, i.e., BER = 10^-9, the hybrid system can support at least 75% more simultaneous users than the 2-D OCDMA system for the analyzed case study. The analysis suggests that the hybrid 1-D WDM/OCDMA system is a qualified migration scenario since it can provide a smooth migration path from current networks towards OCDMA networks.