Design and Performance of Optical Cross-Connect Architectures with Converter Sharing
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ABSTRACT:
WDM techniques may be used to utilize the large bandwidth
available with optical fibers. In the network context, this will allow lightpaths to be configured on demand between the various source-destination pairs using either wavelength-continuous or non-wavelength-continuous paths. Some degree of wavelength conversion capability would be desirable at the network nodes in order to use the network resources efficiently. This paper addresses the architectures that may be used to provide wavelength conversion in an optical cross-connect node where the converters may be shared either in a shareper-link or share-per node basis. Different ways of implementing OXCs with converter sharing using spaceswitching matrices, delivery-and-coupling switches and various combinations of couplers and filters have been presented. These OXCs are then compared in terms of various features like complexity, expandability, upgradability, degree of wavelength converter sharing and blocking probability performance under different traffic loading.
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