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Influence of Chord Length on the Blocking Performance of Wavelength Routed Chordal Ring Networks

  • Mário M. Freire
  • Henrique J. A. da Silva
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Abstract

In this paper, we present an assessment of the blocking performance of wavelength routed optical networks with chordal ring topology. The performance is focused on chord lengths of 3, N/4, and \(\sqrt N + 3\), being N the number of nodes. It is shown that, in a 100-node chordal ring network, the use of the chord length of N/4 instead of 3 clearly reduces the blocking probability. A reduction of the blocking probability is also observed when the chord length of \(\sqrt N + 3\) is used, instead of N/4 or w=3. The increase of the node degree from 3 (chordal ring with 100 nodes and a chord length of \(\sqrt N + 3\)) to 4 (mesh torus with 100 nodes) has also revealed an important feature: very small blocking gains were observed due to the increase of the node degree from 3 to 4. Thus, the choice of a chordal ring with a chord length of \(\sqrt N + 3\), instead of a mesh-torus, leads to a reduction in the number of network links, and hence in the total cable length, since the number of links in a N-node chordal ring is 3N, and the number of links in a N-node mesh-torus is 4N.

Key words

Wavelength routed optical networks chordal rings blocking performance. 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Mário M. Freire
    • 1
  • Henrique J. A. da Silva
    • 2
  1. 1.Department of Computer ScienceUniversity of Beira InteriorCovilhãPortugal
  2. 2.Department of Electrical EngineeringUniversity of Coimbra - Pole IICoimbraPortugal

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