Performance of highly connected photonic switching lossless metro-access optical networks

Indayara Bertoldi Martins; Yara Martins; Felipe Rudge Barbosa

doi:10.1117/1.OE.57.3.036108

13 March 2018 Performance of highly connected photonic switching lossless metro-access optical networks

Indayara Bertoldi Martins, Yara Martins, Felipe Rudge Barbosa

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Optical Engineering, Vol. 57, Issue 3, 036108 (March 2018). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.57.3.036108

Abstract

The present work analyzes the performance of photonic switching networks, optical packet switching (OPS) and optical burst switching (OBS), in mesh topology of different sizes and configurations. The “lossless” photonic switching node is based on a semiconductor optical amplifier, demonstrated and validated with experimental results on optical power gain, noise figure, and spectral range. The network performance was evaluated through computer simulations based on parameters such as average number of hops, optical packet loss fraction, and optical transport delay (A_m). The combination of these elements leads to a consistent account of performance, in terms of network traffic and packet delivery for OPS and OBS metropolitan networks. Results show that a combination of highly connected mesh topologies having an ingress e-buffer present high efficiency and throughput, with very low packet loss and low latency, ensuring fast data delivery to the final receiver.

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Indayara Bertoldi Martins, Yara Martins, and Felipe Rudge Barbosa "Performance of highly connected photonic switching lossless metro-access optical networks," Optical Engineering 57(3), 036108 (13 March 2018). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.57.3.036108

Received: 25 July 2017; Accepted: 13 February 2018; Published: 13 March 2018

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