Assessment of Optical Node Architectures for Building Next Generation Large Bandwidth Networks

Mungun-Erdene GANBOLD
Takuma YASUDA
Yojiro MORI
Hiroshi HASEGAWA
Fumikazu INUZUKA
Akira HIRANO
Ken-ichi SATO

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications   Vol.E103-B    No.6    pp.679-689
Publication Date: 2020/06/01
Publicized: 2019/12/20
Online ISSN: 1745-1345
DOI: 10.1587/transcom.2019EBP3148
Type of Manuscript: PAPER
Category: Network
Keyword: 
ROADM,  OXC,  fiber cross-connect,  routing and wavelength assignment,  

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Summary: 
We analyze the cost of networks consisting of optical cross-connect nodes with different architectures for realizing the next generation large bandwidth networks. The node architectures include wavelength granular and fiber granular optical routing cross-connects. The network cost, capital expenditure (CapEx), involves link cost and node cost, both of which are evaluated for different scale networks under various traffic volumes. Numerical experiments demonstrate that the subsystem modular architecture with wavelength granular routing yields the highest cost effectiveness over a wide range of parameter values.