Network calculus based optical interconnection networks performance analysis model

Abstract

Optical Interconnection technology has been extensively studied by researchers. Most of these researches mainly focus on the design and optimization of optical devices and system architecture. But, little effort is taken in performing systematic modeling and performance analysis in mathematics. In this paper, we propose a performance analysis model for optical interconnection networks based on Network Calculus (NC). All these optical devices, such as drivers, modulators, multiplexers, waveguides, switches, detectors, amplifiers, etc. can be modeled as Latency-Rate (LR) service curves, and the system-level service curve can be derived from the concatenation theorem. Arrive curve can be abstracted from the synthesis or realistic workload. By applying the basic theorems of NC, we can get the end-to-end latency and backlog, which can be used as a guideline for design and optimization of optical interconnection networks.