Novel scheme for routing optical supervisory channels adhering to OXC

摘要

One novel scheme for routing optical supervisory channels adhering to optical cross-connect (OXC) is developed in this paper. Beginning with the definition of the new frame to carry the optical channel (OCH) layer overheads, the proposed scheme processes the overhead associated the individual optical channel, which is carried by optical supervisory channel (OSC), in the similar way as the message-oriented data communication channel (DCC) in OSC. Therefore, all OCH-specified information carried by OSC can be routed by a uniform manner.