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2001 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel

Impact of Transmission Impairments on Network Performance

verfasst von : Byrav Ramamurthy

Erschienen in: Design of Optical WDM Networks

Verlag: Springer US

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In a wavelength-routed optical network, a transmitted signal remains in the optical domain over the entire route (lightpath) assigned to it between its source and destination nodes. The optical signal may have to traverse a number of crossconnect switches (XCSs), fiber segments, and optical amplifiers, e.g., erbium-doped fiber amplifiers (EDFAs). Thus, while propagating through the network, the signal may degrade in quality as it encounters crosstalk at the XCSs and also picks up amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) noise at the EDFAs. Since these impairments continue to degrade the signal quality as it progresses towards its destination, the received bit-error rate (BER) at the destination node might become unacceptably high. Previous work on the lightpath routing and wavelength assignment (RWA) problem assumed an ideal physical layer and ignored these transmission impairments. The main contribution of our work is to incorporate the role of the physical layer in setting up lightpaths by employing appropriate models of multi-wavelength optical devices (XCSs and EDFAs) such that the BER of a candidate lightpath can be computed, in advance, to determine if this lightpath should be used for the call. Features from existing RWA algorithms are integrated with our on-line BER calculation mechanism. Our simulation studies indicate that employing BER-based call-admission algorithms has a significant impact on the performance of realistic networks.

Metadaten
Titel
Impact of Transmission Impairments on Network Performance
verfasst von
Byrav Ramamurthy
Copyright-Jahr
2001
Verlag
Springer US
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-1675-0_6