All-Optical Unicast/Multicast Routing in WDM Networks

Optical transport networks (OTN) must be prepared in terms of better resource utilization, for accommodating unicast and multicast traffic together. Light-trees have been proposed for supporting multicast connections in OTN. Nevertheless when traffic grooming is applied in light-trees, resources can be underutilized as traffic can be routed to undesirable destinations in order to avoid optical-electrical-optical (OEO) conversions. In this paper, a novel architecture named S/G light- tree for supporting unicast/multicast connections is proposed. The architecture allows traffic dropping and aggregation in different wavelengths without performing OEO conversions. A heuristic that routes traffic demands using less wavelengths by taking advantage of the proposed architecture is designed as well. Simulation results show that the architecture can minimize the number of used wavelengths and OEO conversions when compared to light-trees

All-Optical Label Stacking: Easing the Trade-offs Between Routing and Architecture Cost in All-Optical Packet Switching

All-optical label swapping (AOLS) forms a key technology towards the implementation of all-optical packet switching nodes (AOPS) for the future optical Internet. The capital expenditures of the deployment of AOLS increases with the size of the label spaces (i.e. the number of used labels), since a special optical device is needed for each recognized label on every node. Label space sizes are affected by the way in which demands are routed. For instance, while shortest-path routing leads to the usage of fewer labels but high link utilization, minimum interference routing leads to the opposite. This paper studies all-optical label stacking (AOLStack), which is an extension of the AOLS architecture. AOLStack aims at reducing label spaces while easing the compromise with link utilization. In this paper, an integer lineal program is proposed with the objective of analyzing the softening of the aforementioned trade-off due to AOLStack. Furthermore, a heuristic aiming at finding good solutions in polynomial-time is proposed as well. Simulation results show that AOLStack either a) reduces the label spaces with a low increase in the link utilization or, similarly, b) uses better the residual bandwidth to decrease the number of labels even more

Label space reduction in GMPLs and All-Optical Label Swapping networks

All-Optical Label Swapping (AOLS) es una tecnología clave para la implementación de nodos de conmutación completamente óptica de paquetes. Sin embargo, el costo de su desarrollo es proporcional al tamaño del espacio de etiquetas (label space). Debido a que los principios de funcionamiento de AOLS son casos particulares de los del MultiProtocol Label Switching (MPLS), esta tesis estudia métodos generales, aplicables a ambos, con el propósito de reducir el espacio de etiquetas tanto como sea posible. Modelos de programación lineal entera y heurísticas son propuestos para el caso en el que se permite apilar una etiqueta extra. Encontramos que cerca del 50% del espacio de etiquetas puede ser reducido, si se permite colocar una etiqueta extra en la pila. Además, particularmente para AOLS, encontramos que se puede reducir el espacio de etiquetas cerca al 25% si se duplica la capacidad de los enlaces y se permite re-encaminar el tráfico.