Abstract
DWDM networks make use of optical switching networks that allow light waves of multiple lengths to be serviced and provide the possibility of converting them appropriately. Research work on optical switching networks focuses on two main areas of interest: new non-blocking structures for optical switching networks and finding traffic characteristics of switching networks of the structures that are already well known. In practical design of switching nodes in optical networks, in many cases, the Clos switching networks are successfully used. Clos switching networks are also used in Elastic Optical Networks that can effectively manage allocation of resources to individual multi-service traffic streams. The research outcomes presented in this article deal with the problems of finding traffic characteristics in blocking optical switching networks with known structures. This article aims at presenting an analysis of the influence of traffic management threshold mechanisms on the traffic characteristics of multi-service blocking Clos switching networks that are used in the nodes of elastic optical networks as well as their influence on the traffic efficiency of network nodes. The analysis was carried out on the basis of research studies performed in a specially dedicated purpose-made simulation environment. The article presents a description of the simulation environment used in the experiments. The study was focused on the influence of the threshold mechanism, which is one of the most commonly used and elastic traffic management mechanisms, and on the traffic characteristics of switching networks that service different mixtures of multi-service Erlang, Engset and Pascal traffic streams. The conducted study validates the operational effectiveness and practicality of the application of the threshold mechanism to model traffic characteristics of nodes in an elastic optical network.
Highlights
For a long time, we have seen an increase in the amount and variety of network services, accompanied by an increase in the need for bitrate and the ever-increasing number of devices
This article presents the results of a study that fits into the current body of research on the determination of traffic characteristics of blocking optical networks with known structures
The results presented in the article make it possible to analyse the influence of threshold mechanisms in traffic management on the traffic characteristics of multi-service blocking Clos switching fabrics used in the nodes of elastic optical networks (EONs) and their influence on traffic efficiency of network nodes
Summary
We have seen an increase in the amount and variety of network services, accompanied by an increase in the need for bitrate and the ever-increasing number of devices. Rapid development of access and backbone optical networks has created a situation in which they have become the basic solutions that can simultaneously offer alike resource management mechanisms with high variability of service quality and high bitrates. Optical networks technology provides the possibility to increase the transmission speed up to 100 and 400 Gbps, or even 1 Tbps. This opportunity for effective use of high network bitrates for the network users’ necessity with different demands, much lower than the capacity of the network, can be successfully fulfilled by the execution of the elastic optical networks (EONs) concept [3], i.e., networks that offer the possibility to allocate resources elastically from a shared resource pool to different optical paths
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