Publication No 29487

Author(s)

Späth, J.*; Gremmelmaier, U.*; Briem, U.*; Huber, M.N.

Title

Architecture and performance evaluation of future photonic networks

Topics

Broadband Networks

Methods

Performance Evaluation; Network Planning

Keywords

WAVELENGTH CONVERSION; PHOTONIC; WDM; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; ARCHITECTURE; ANALYSIS

Abstract

The paper discusses several alternatives for the architecture of photonic networks and presents a performance evaluation. In particular, it includes a comparison of nodes with optical cross-connect functionality focusing on concepts for sharing wavelength converters among multiple fibres. Performance models are developed and analysed. The results show that in general, wavelength converters increase node performance significantly. However, at a certain degree of convertre employment, additional converters result in almost no further performance improvement.

Year

1995

Reference entry

Späth, J.; Gremmelmaier, U.; Briem, U.; Huber, M.N.
Architecture and performance evaluation of future photonic networks
Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Computer Communication (ICCC '95), Seoul, August 1995, pp. 661-666

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