Multicast traffic grooming in flexible optical WDM networks

Ankitkumar N. Patel; Philip N. Ji; Jason P. Jue; Ting Wang

doi:10.1117/12.2004327

5 February 2013 Multicast traffic grooming in flexible optical WDM networks

Ankitkumar N. Patel, Philip N. Ji, Jason P. Jue, Ting Wang

Proceedings Volume 8646, Optical Metro Networks and Short-Haul Systems V; 864605 (2013) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2004327
Event: SPIE OPTO, 2013, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

In Metropolitan Area Networks (MANs), point-to-multipoint applications, such as IPTV, video-on-demand, distance learning, and content distribution, can be efficiently supported through light-tree-based multicastcommunications instead of lightpath-based unicast-communications. The application of multicasting for such traffic is justified by its inherent benefits of reduced control and management overhead and elimination of redundant resource provisioning. Supporting such multicast traffic in Flexible optical WDM (FWDM) networks that can provision light-trees using optimum amount of spectrum within flexible channel spacing leads to higher wavelength and spectral efficiencies compared to the conventional ITU-T fixed grid networks. However, in spite of such flexibility, the residual channel capacity of stranded channels may not be utilized if the network does not offer channels with arbitrary line rates. Additionally, the spectrum allocated to guard bands used to isolate finer granularity channels remains unutilized. These limitations can be addressed by using traffic grooming in which low-rate multicast connections are aggregated and switched over high capacity light-trees. In this paper, we address the multicast traffic grooming problem in FWDM networks, and propose a novel auxiliary graph-based algorithm for the first time. The performance of multicast traffic grooming is evaluated in terms of spectral, cost, and energy efficiencies compared to lightpath-based transparent FWDM networks, lightpathbased traffic grooming-capable FWDM networks, multicast-enabled transparent FWDM networks, and multicast traffic grooming-capable fixed grid networks. Simulation results demonstrate that multicast traffic grooming in FWDM networks not only improves spectral efficiency, but also cost, and energy efficiencies compared to other multicast traffic provisioning approaches of FWDM and fixed grid networks.

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Ankitkumar N. Patel, Philip N. Ji, Jason P. Jue, and Ting Wang "Multicast traffic grooming in flexible optical WDM networks", Proc. SPIE 8646, Optical Metro Networks and Short-Haul Systems V, 864605 (5 February 2013); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2004327

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