Performance Evaluation of Fixed Routing Algorithms in All-Optical Networks under Non-uniform Traffic

Most works about all-optical circuit-switched WDM networks considers a shortest path algorithm for fixed routing, like the Dijkstra´ algorithm. However, recently, two new algorithms, searching for better load balancing and presenting superior performance than Dijkstra´s when submitted to an uniform traffic load, were proposed, the Restricted Routing Technique (RRT) and the Best among the Shortest Routes-(BSR). This work evaluates the performance of these algorithms under a non-uniform traffic load. For each topology studied were observed specific characteristics of the impact of the non-uniform traffic load for each routing algorithm. Overall, performance evaluation results showed that the algorithm BSR achieves for all topologies studied superior performance in terms of blocking probability and fairness.