Date of Award

2013

Publication Type

Master Thesis

Degree Name

M.Sc.

Department

Computer Science

Keywords

Applied sciences, Genetic algorithm, Memetic algorithm, Optical networks, Traffic grooming

Supervisor

Arunita Jaekel

Rights

info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess

Abstract

In recent years there has been a growing recognition of the need for developing energy efficient network design approaches for WDM backbone networks as well. The typical approach has been to switch off some components such as line cards and router ports during low demand periods, and has focussed on traditional static and dynamic traffic models. In this paper, we present a new approach that exploits knowledge of demand holding times to intelligently share resources among non-overlapping demands and reduce the overall power consumption of the network. We consider the fixed-window scheduled traffic model (STM), and present i) a Genetic Algorithm (GA) and ii) a Memetic Algorithm (MA) based strategy that jointly minimizes both power consumption and transceiver cost for the logical topology. Simulation results clearly demonstrate that both of the proposed algorithms outperform traditional holding time unaware (HTU) approaches; the GA leads to additional improvements even compared to the shortest path holding time aware (HTA) heuristic. However, the MA manages to achieve similar results to the GA while taking up 4 to 5 times less computational resources and time to compute.

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