Dimensioning and Energy Efficiency of Multi-Rate Metro Rings

Due to the ever-growing network capacity demand, energy-efficient and scalable networking solutions are needed in all networking segments. This paper focuses on the metro segment and compares the power consumption for four different technologies: Ethernet, Reconfigurable Optical Add-Drop Multiplexer...

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Published in:Journal of lightwave technology 2012-11, Vol.30 (22), p.3552-3564
Main Authors: Pointurier, Y., Uscumlic, B., Cerutti, I., Gravey, A., Antona, J-C
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Applied sciences
Business and industry local networks
Circuit properties
Computer Science
Electric, optical and optoelectronic circuits
Electronics
Energy efficiency
Exact sciences and technology
Integrated optics. Optical fibers and wave guides
network planning
Networking and Internet Architecture
Networks and services in france and abroad
Operation, maintenance, reliability
Optical and optoelectronic circuits
optical circuit switching
Optical fiber communications
Optical fiber networks
Optical packet switching
Optical switches
Optical telecommunications
Optical transmitters
Optical wavelength conversion
Power demand
Systems, networks and services of telecommunications
Telecommunications
Telecommunications and information theory
Teleprocessing networks. Isdn
Wavelength division multiplexing
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Summary:Due to the ever-growing network capacity demand, energy-efficient and scalable networking solutions are needed in all networking segments. This paper focuses on the metro segment and compares the power consumption for four different technologies: Ethernet, Reconfigurable Optical Add-Drop Multiplexers (ROADM), Optical Transport Networks (OTN), and an optical packet switching (OPS) solution called Packet Optical Add-Drop Multiplexers ("POADM"), which was recently proposed. A novel resource allocation strategy for POADM-based OPS multi-rate rings is proposed for the first time. The multi-rate POADM ring network resource allocation problem is shown to be NP-hard and solved using both an MILP formulation and a heuristic. The MILP formulation and the heuristic are compared, along with dimensioning results for Ethernet and ROADM/OTN ring networks. Results show that multi-rate POADM rings achieve savings up to 10% with respect to single-rate design and can be enabled by assigning a different rate to each wavelength. Furthermore, POADM rings can be up to 5 times more energy-efficient than Ethernet rings and 30% than ROADM rings, assuming similar network efficiencies.
ISSN:0733-8724
1558-2213
DOI:10.1109/JLT.2012.2222864