1st Annual Conference on Broadband Networks

Research Article

Meeting optical QoS requirements with reduced complexity in dynamic wavelength assignment

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/BROADNETS.2004.45,
        author={Iguatemi E. Fonseca and Raul C. Almeida and Helio Waldman and Mois\^{e}s R. N.  Ribeiro},
        title={Meeting optical QoS requirements with reduced complexity in dynamic wavelength assignment},
        proceedings={1st Annual Conference on Broadband Networks},
        publisher={IEEE},
        proceedings_a={BROADNETS},
        year={2004},
        month={12},
        keywords={},
        doi={10.1109/BROADNETS.2004.45}
    }
    
  • Iguatemi E. Fonseca
    Raul C. Almeida
    Helio Waldman
    Moisés R. N. Ribeiro
    Year: 2004
    Meeting optical QoS requirements with reduced complexity in dynamic wavelength assignment
    BROADNETS
    IEEE
    DOI: 10.1109/BROADNETS.2004.45
Iguatemi E. Fonseca1,*, Raul C. Almeida1,*, Helio Waldman1,*, Moisés R. N. Ribeiro2,*
  • 1: DECOM/FEEC/UNICAMP, www.optinet.fee.unicamp.br, CP. 6101, 13083-970, Campinas, Brazil,
  • 2: DEL/UFES, CP. 01-9011, 29060-970, Vitória, Brazil.
*Contact email: iguatemi@decom.fee.unicamp.br, rcamelo@decom.fee.unicamp.br, waldman @decom.fee.unicamp.br, moises@ele.ufes.br

Abstract

Physical layer impairments may require highly complex implementations of the control plane in dynamic networks with quality of service (QoS) constraints. In order to alleviate this problem, we propose that dynamic wavelength assignment should be based on the elementary first-fit (FF) algorithm using off-line optimized priority lists. It is shown that this may significantly reduce the effects of physical impairments with no additional computational cost for the control of dynamic networks. A simple metric is proposed to evaluate optical QoS taking the performance of the network as a whole. Different heuristics are presented and evaluated. Results show that there are particular lists capable of reducing in four orders of magnitude the probability of FWM impacting network performance.