A Generic Autonomous Clustering-Based Heterogeneous Waveband Switching Architecture in WDM Networks

Authors

Mengke Li, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
Byrav Ramamurthy, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow

Date of this Version

2006

Comments

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

Abstract

Heterogeneous waveband switching (HeteroWBS) in WDM networks reduces the network operational costs. We propose an autonomous clustering-based HeteroWBS architecture to support the design of efficient HeteroWBS algorithms under dynamic traffic requests in such a network.