ANALYTICAL MODELS IN WAVELENGTH ROUTED OPTICAL NETWORK: A REVIEW

Madhuli Madhusmita Das, Pritam Keshari Sahoo

Abstract: The Wavelength- routed optical network has become a topic of keen interest for its attractive and unique features Since wavelength conversion increase the efficiency and performance of a network, it play an important role in wavelength -routed optical network. Wavelength conversion is one of the challenging features of wavelength- routed network that eliminate wavelength continuity constraints as well as improve blocking probability performance typically in backbone networks. This paper reviews the analytical models to quantify the benefits of wavelength converter. We focused on literature on wavelengthrouted network, benefits of wavelength conversion, and challenges of wavelength conversion and some of the probabilistic model.

Keywords: Wavelength Conversion, Wavelength Routed Optical Network (WRON), Blocking Probability, Lightpath.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2017.0605014