Bandwidth Allocation Algorithm for Efficient Wavelength Utilization in Dynamic Optical Circuit Switched (DOCS) Networks

Motivation and Need:

As explained in above section electronic Internet routers are currently limited by the capacity they can provide with limited space and power budget. Internet traffic growth poses a problem to carriers, too. While Internet traffic continues to double every year, the capacity of electronic routers seems to follow Moore's law, doubling every 18 months for a given power consumption and volume. If it continues, this mismatch in growth rates between demand and capacity will become a huge problem for carriers. For example, at this rate, in ten years time we will need ten times more routers, implying a ten-fold increase in power consumption and space. Not only does this increase require ten times more central offices to house the routers, but it also increases the complexity of the network. This is a heavy economic and logistical burden for the transport providers, who are already deeply in debt. In these difficult economic times, these providers would prefer routers that are higher capacity, simpler, lower cost and lower power.

Current Progress

Dynamic Optical Circuit switched Network

International Collaborator
Dr Y. A. Raja (UNCC, USA )

Principal Investigator
Dr S. M. H. Zaidi (Dean SEECS, Pakistan )

Graduate Researcher
Ali Munir, ali.munir@seecs.edu.pk