High performance optical backbones for next generation Internet

Author

Freire, Mário M. ; Coelho, Rui M F ; Rodrigues, Joel J P C

Author_Institution

Dept. of Informatics, Univ. of Beira Interior, Covilha, Portugal

fYear

2003

fDate

28-30 April 2003

Firstpage

170

Lastpage

174

Abstract

In this paper, we present a performance analysis of WDM-based networks with nodal degrees ranging from 2 to 5. It is shown that the increase of the nodal degree from 2 to 3 leads to higher nodal degree gains, whereas the increase of nodal degree from 4 to 5 leads to small nodal degree gains. These results make degree 3 and degree 4 topologies very attractive for use in optical Internet backbones. It is also shown that there are several degree 4 topologies with smallest diameter (highest performance) and several topologies with a diameter slightly higher than the smallest diameter, which have a similar performance. The existence of these topologies increase the implementation flexibility of degree four topologies in the optical core of IP-over-WDM networks.

Keywords

Internet; optical communication; performance evaluation; wavelength division multiplexing; IP-over-WDM networks; WDM-based networks; degree four topologies; high performance optical backbones; next generation Internet; nodal degrees; optical core; performance analysis; IP networks; Internet; Network topology; Next generation networking; Optical fiber networks; Spine; Switches; Telecommunication traffic; Wavelength division multiplexing; Wavelength routing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Technology: Coding and Computing [Computers and Communications], 2003. Proceedings. ITCC 2003. International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1916-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ITCC.2003.1197521

Filename

1197521