Dynamic Spectrum Sharing Method in SDM based Optical Packet and Circuit Integrated Networks

摘要

With the development of communication services, backbone networks need to deal with various types of traffic by utilizing appropriate switching systems in a flexible manner. Optical packet and circuit integrated (OPCI) networks offer both optical packet-switching (OPS) and optical circuit-switching (OCS) and have been studied for this purpose. A space division multiplexing-based OPCI network provides significant communication capacity and shares spectrum resources for OPS and OCS traffic demands on the same physical infrastructure to efficiently accommodate future services. For appropriate resource utilization, the ratio of spectrum resources between OPS and OCS must be flexibly managed based on the dynamically changing traffic. One of important issues of OPCI networks is sharing spectrum resources under a dynamic traffic model. In this paper, we propose a dynamic spectrum-sharing method for both OPS and OCS data transmissions to enhance resource utilization. The spectrum-sharing method consists of dynamic resource boundary management and load-balancing by exploiting integer linear programming periodically in operation. We evaluate the proposed method with computer simulation and verify its effectiveness in terms of both OPS loss probability and OCS blocking probability.