Resource Allocation in Multigranular Optical Networks

01/29/2019
by   Jingxin Wu, et al.
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Thesis Statement: Cost-effective switching and spectrum utilization efficiency have become critical design considerations in optical networks. This dissertation provides in-depth exploration of these important aspects, and proposes effective techniques for low-cost switching architectures and resource allocation algorithms to facilitate the adoption of optical networks in the near future. The dramatic growth of Internet traffic brings challenges for optical network designers. The increasing traffic and bandwidth requirements mean that various resource allocation schemes to achieve different network design goals assume great importance. The general problem of resource allocation to lightpath requests is a challenging problem. An emerging technology of flexible and more fine-grained grid through the use of Optical Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OOFDM) allows fiber bandwidth to be more suitably matched up with application requirements, thereby making the network more elastic than the conventional Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) optical networks. Despite the advances of employing OOFDM technology in elastic optical networks (EONs), imminent fiber capacity exhaustion due to the ever-increasing demands means that multiple fibers per link will be inevitable. While increasing the number of fibers boosts the capacity of networks, there is a price to pay for it in the form of increased number of switch ports / complexity of switches. The huge amount of traffic demands and thus high hardware requirements motivate multigranularity (such as wavebanding) to save costs in optical networks. This dissertation aims to tackle several types of resource allocation challenges in multi-granular optical networks to either improve the spectrum utilization or provide cost-effective switching techniques.

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