A Multicost Approach to Online Impairment-Aware RWA

Abstract--We design and implement a multicost impairmentaware routing and wavelength assignment algorithm for online traffic. In transparent optical networks the quality of a transmission degrades due to physical layer impairments. To serve a connection, the proposed algorithm finds a path and a free wavelength (a lightpath) that has acceptable signal quality performance by estimating a quality of transmission measure, called the Q factor. We take into account channel utilization in the network, which changes as new connections are established or released, in order to calculate the noise variances that correspond to physical impairments on the links. These, along with the time invariant eye impairment penalties of all candidate network paths, form the inputs to the algorithm. The multicost algorithm finds a set of so called non-dominated Q paths from the given source to the given destination. Various objective functions are then evaluated in order to choose the optimal lightpath to ser...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2009
• Where: ICC
• Authors: Kostas Christodoulopoulos, Konstantinos Manousakis, Emmanouel A. Varvarigos, Marianna Angelou, Ioannis Tomkos
• Keywords: Algorithm, Communications, ICC 2009, Physical Layer Impairments, Transparent Optical Networks