A Paradigm for Object-Oriented Conceptual Modeling of Optical Networks

We present a conceptual framework for modeling optical networks and the solutions to its associated problems. The framework is targeted towards a large-scale initiative by us for developing a modeling language that can help with conceptual modeling of typical optical network design problems. While there are pieces of literature available that describe modeling languages for other application areas, there are no specific languages for use in networking problems in general. Our work is an important step forward to address this defficiency. Our proposed framework takes the already existing modeling language notations and extends them to support the modeling of optical networks.