Performance Evaluation of Wavelength Routed Optical Network with Wavelength Conversion

The rapid development of telecommunication networks is driven by user demands for new applications and advances in technologies. The explosive growth of the internet traffic is due to its use for collecting the information, communication, multimedia application, entertainment, etc. These applications are imposing a tremendous demand for bandwidth capacity on telecommunication network. The introduction of fiber optics had proved to meet the huge demand of bandwidth. These requirement can be meet by all optical network which is capable of transmitting enormous data at very high speed, around 50 Tera bits per seconds (Tbps) A wavelength conversion technique is addressed in this paper to reduced the blocking probability in wavelength routed networks. It is seen that the blocking probability of traffic requests decreases as the wavelength conversion factor increases. We explode the possibility for network with different size with variation in wavelength per link. In this work the evaluation of wavelength routed optical network with varying number of wavelength converters, different traffic types are carried out and results are shown that the blocking probability is minimum with 50% to 60% wavelength convertible nodes. Wavelength convertible nodes more than 60% are not showing much effect on reduction in blocking probability rather it results in increase in overall cost of network. Index Terms WDM Networks, Blocking Probability, Wavelength Conversion, Link utilization. —————————— ——————————