Quantifying Bypass Traffic in Partially Meshed Transparent Optical Networks

Abstract This work investigates the transparent bypassing capacity requirements of elastic backbone optical networks to determine all-optical cross-connection needed at network nodes. Topological parameters have been used develop a random generator, and generated topologies are evaluated. Reference values obtained applied well-known topologies, extensive simulations conducted obtain nodes' traffic under realistic profiles. The study reveals that although varies by topology, it never exceeds 9% total per node degree. These findings can help properly dimension nodes determining necessary quantity transceivers based on topology expected traffic.