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Performance analysis of optical networks with long range dependent traffic

AuthorDas, Nagendra Kumar
Call NumberAIT Thesis no.TC-00-07
Subject(s)Code division multiple access

NoteA thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Engineering, School of Engineering and Technology
PublisherAsian Institute of Technology
Series StatementThesis ; no. TC-00-07
AbstractNowadays, rapidly growing different kinds of information services demand more and more capacity from the transport network over which these services can operate. The concept of all - optical network may help to accommodate constantly growing bandwidth demands as it can support bandwidths in the range of Terabits per second. Further improvement towards network bandwidth increase is provided by the wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) technology where each fiber in a network can carry more than one signal on different wavelengths. Recent studies show that in most cases internet traffic in communication networks show long range dependency and is not Poisson and hence an investigation is needed to understand the behavior of such networks when the traffic show long range dependency. This thesis work studies traffic performance of WDM optical networks under long range dependent traffic pattern which can be modeled as Pareto distribution. The network scenario is varied in four types and in five capacity of wavelengths in WDM. The 6 node ring network and 12 node ring network are investigated to understand the impact of growing network sizes in sparsely connected networks. The 13 node mesh network is investigated to understand the behavior of well connected networks. The 21 node ARP A2 network is investigated to understand the behavior of arbitrarily connected networks under such traffic. Two wavelength assignment techniques, random routing and sequential routing, are investigated. Finally, a comparison is made between performance with Poisson and Pareto service time distribution. Simulation results show that the random assignment of wavelengths gives higher blocking in the network than sequential wavelength assignment. From simulation it has also been found that the network size increment in sparsely connected networks has lesser effect on improving the performance as compared to the case of well connected networks. It is also shown that the Poisson model underestimates the blocking for the case of Pareto model. Simulating with different topologies of networks it was demonstrated that the Pareto model always has a higher blocking probability than the Poisson model and networks designed for Poisson traffic may be unsuitable for carrying long range dependent traffic.
Year2000
Corresponding Series Added EntryAsian Institute of Technology. Thesis ; no. TC-00-07
TypeThesis
SchoolSchool of Engineering and Technology (SET)
DepartmentDepartment of Information and Communications Technologies (DICT)
Academic Program/FoSTelecommunications (TC)
Chairperson(s)Erke, Tapio ;
Examination Committee(s)Ahmed, Kazi M.;Sharma, A. B. ;
Scholarship Donor(s)Government of Finland;
DegreeThesis (M.Eng.) - Asian Institute of Technology, 2000


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