Placement of wavelength converters for minimal wavelength usage in WDM networks

Proceedings - IEEE INFOCOM - Tập 3 - Trang 1425-1431 vol.3
X.-H. Jia1,2, D.-Z. Du3, X.-D. Hu4,1, H.-J. Huang1, D.-Y. Li1
1Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong
2City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, HK
3Dept. of Comput. Sci., City Univ. of Hong Kong, Kowloon, China
4Institute of Applied Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Tóm tắt

An important goal of the design of WDM (wavelength division multiplexing) networks is to use less wavelengths to serve more communication needs. According to the wavelength conflict rule, we know that the number of wavelengths required in a WDM network is at least equal to the maximal number of channels over a fiber (called maximal link load) in the network. By placing wavelength converters at some nodes in the network, the number of wavelengths needed can be made equal to the maximal link load. In this paper we study the problem of placing the minimal number of converters in a network to achieve that the number of wavelengths in use is equal to the maximal link load. For duplex communication channels, we prove that an optimal solution can be obtained in polynomial-time. For unidirectional communication channels, which was proved to be NP-complete, we develop a set of lemmas which lead to an efficient approximation algorithm whose approximation ratio is two.

Từ khóa

#Intelligent networks #WDM networks #Optical wavelength conversion #Wavelength division multiplexing #Communication channels #Wavelength converters #Computer science #Polynomials #Optical fibers #Spread spectrum communication

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