An Efficient Scheduling Scheme For On-Demand Lightpath Reservations In Reconfigurable WDM Optical Networks

Authors

Xi Yang, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
Lu Shen, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
Ajay Todimala, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
Byrav Ramamurthy, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
Tom Lehman, University of Southern California

Date of this Version

2006

Document Type

Article

Comments

Published in Optical Fiber Communication Conference, 2006 and the 2006 National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference. OFC 2006. Copyright 2006 IEEE. Used by permission.

Abstract

We propose an efficient scheduling scheme that optimizes advance-reserved lightpath services in reconfigurable WDM networks. A re-optimization approach is devised to reallocate network resources for dynamic service demands while keeping determined schedule unchanged.