Ant colony optimization for PON network design

Optical access technology has quickly got a worldwide development. Currently, the deployment of equipment and fiber lines in the optical access network require complex manual design. However, because of non-standard artificial design, it is difficult to make the network reasonable, and increasing post-engineering and maintenance difficulties. Based on the partition algorithm in the previous article, this paper presents a new partitioning algorithm for the PON network design, which is a combination of the Ant Colony Optimization algorithm and partitioning algorithm. Compared with other algorithms, the ant colony optimization is more efficient and more accurate. It is very suitable for solving calculating the capacity of the large and complex network. Therefore, we use ant colony optimization for PON network design. By entering the number of nodes, users, service traffic, the unit cost parameters, it can automatically calculate the number and configuration of OLT, which can help to optimize the network layout, and save the network construction costs.