It is anticipated that future core networks may evolve to Optical Cross-Connect (OXC) based architectures where switching is carried out at the granularity of wavelength-based circuits. While the switch fabric is an important component of an OXC, the number of ports is typically a more significant contributor to its cost. Reducing the number of ports (or number of wavelengths per link) will also result in lower transmission-systems costs. We investigate the effect of incorporating some packet switching functionality in the OXC and try to quantify the bandwidth savings that can be gained by doing so, under certain assumptions about the network and the traffic characteristcs. Results show that taffic grooming and statistical multiplexing gain, which are introduced by the packet handling functionality, lead to better channel utilization. This can result in lowering the number of channels and ports and in reducing the OXC size and cost.
KEYWORDS: Statistical multiplexing, Probability theory, Multiplexers, Statistical modeling, Statistical analysis, Composites, Data modeling, Systems modeling, Data communications, Stochastic processes
The effect of traffic variability on statistical multiplexing gain is analyzed in a bufferless continuous fluid-flow traffic model. Two different methods are used to account for traffic loss, namely a method based on overflow probability and another one based on traffic loss ratio. It is shown that for both methods, bandwidth savings due to statistical multiplexing gain (SMG) can be significant and increases with increasing traffic variability. It is also shown that SMG and channel utilization increase as the number of composite traffic streams increases and as traffic loss probability/ratio is lowered.
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