Date of Award

7-11-2015

Publication Type

Master Thesis

Degree Name

M.A.Sc.

Department

Computer Science

Keywords

BEST FIRST SEARCH, DYNAMIC LIGHTPATH, OPTICAL NETWORK, PHYSICAL LAYER IMPAIRMENT, ROUTING AND WAVELENGTH ASSIGNMENT, TRANSLUCENT NETWORK

Supervisor

BANDYOPADHYAY, SUBIR

Supervisor

JAEKEL, ARUNITA

Rights

info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess

Abstract

Optical networks play a major role in supporting the traffic in backbone computer networks. Routing and Wavelength Assignment (RWA) is the technique used to establish a light-path from a source node to a destination node in a Wavelength Division Multiplexed (WDM) optical network. As an optical signal propagates through the network, the quality of the signal degrades due to physical layer impairments. To address this problem, in translucent WDM networks, the signal is regenerated at intervals. The main objective of this research is to propose a fast heuristic for dynamic lightpath allocation in translucent WDM networks and to compare the heuristic with an optimal algorithm that was proposed recently.

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