A performance study of limited range partial wavelength conversion for asynchronous optical packet/burst switching
Author
Doğan, Kaan
Akar, Nail
Date
2006Source Title
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2006
Print ISSN
0536-1486
Publisher
IEEE
Pages
2544 - 2549
Language
English
Type
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Abstract
In this work, we study an asynchronous optical packet/burst switching node equipped with a number of limited range wavelength converters shared per output link. A wavelength conversion policy is one by which the outgoing wavelength for an optical packet is selected if its incoming wavelength is in use. Through simulations, we show that the so-called "far conversion" policy in which the optical packet is switched onto the farthest available wavelength in the tuning range, outperforms the other policies we studied. We point out the "clustering effect" in the use of wavelengths to explain this phenomenon.
Keywords
Computer simulationPacket networks
Optical packets
Wavelength conversion policy
Optical switches