The present invention relates to the technical field of communication, and more particularly to a route and wavelength assignment method and device based on all-optical wavelength conversion.
With the rise and development of emerging telecom services such as big data and cloud computing, the global traffic is exploding, which puts higher demand on the capacity of transmission network. Decades ago, wavelength conversion (WC) can flexibly assign wavelength resources and improve network capacity efficiency, so it has received wide attention. WC is classified into optical-electrical-optical (OEO) wavelength conversion and all-optical wavelength conversion (AOWC). OEO conversion is more mature and widely used in optical networks. However, with the increase of optical channel rate, the cost of OEO conversion becomes very high. On the other hand, AOWC is transparent to the optical channel rate and supports seamless conversion in high-speed optical channels, but it has not been widely used in real networks because of its unstable conversion performance. Therefore, in order to meet the requirements of increasing optical channel rate, AOWC with transparency to rate has attracted more and more attention.
Thanks to the development of all-optical signal processing technology in recent years, the performance of AOWC is greatly improved, and the cost is controllable, which inspires researchers to recur to AOWC technology in current and future optical networks. However, most of the researches on AOWC now assume that the conversion will not introduce any optical signal noise, which is just an assumed ideal situation. However, in the actual scene, this is unrealistic, unreasonable and imprecise. Affected by the phase noise transfer and nonlinear effect, AOWC does introduce signal penalty, resulting in the decrease of optical signal-to-noise ratio (OSNR), which is unfavorable for high-speed optical channel signal transmission.
It is an object of the present invention to provide a route and wavelength assignment method and device based on all-optical wavelength conversion that reduces the cost of all-optical wavelength conversion and mitigates impact of OSNR penalty on network performance improvement.
To address the technical problem mentioned above, the present invention provides a route and wavelength assignment method based on all-optical wavelength conversion, including the steps of:
As a further improvement of the present invention, the placing the all-optical wavelength converters according to the principle of sparse wavelength converter placement in the step S2 includes optimal placement of the shortest route traversal number, optimal placement of the maximum hop count and optimal placement the block cause.
As a further improvement of the present invention, optimal placement of the shortest route traversal number specifically includes the steps of:
where T is the total number of wavelength converters in the whole network and N is the set of network nodes.
As a further improvement of the present invention, optimal placement of the maximum hop count specifically includes the steps of:
where T is the total number of wavelength converters in the whole network and N is the set of network nodes, and placing the converters on the node with the greater maximum hop count.
As a further improvement of the present invention, optimal placement the block cause specifically includes the steps of:
where T is total number of wavelength converters in the whole network, N is the set of network nodes, and the greater Vs a node has, the more it needs wavelength conversion.
As a further improvement of the present invention, the OSNR awareness route and wavelength assignment algorithm model is
where OSNRtotal represents the initial OSNR of the optical path and PASEi represents the ASE noise power of the ith optical amplifier; OSNRpenaltyi represents the OSNR penalty of the ith all-optical wavelength converter and is specifically calculated as
OSNRpenalty=OSNRwc−OSNRNWC=10lg(PNCW/PWC)
where OSNRy
represents the OSNR with a wavelength conversion system and PNCW represents the OSNR without any wavelength conversion system, PWC, and PNWC represent noise power with and without a wavelength conversion system, with PWC/PNWC being represented by α in the formula (1), and αi is the PNWC/PWC of the ith all-optical wavelength converter.
As a further improvement of the present invention, the calculating the OSNR of various routes by using the OSNR awareness route and wavelength assignment algorithm model in the step S32 specifically includes the steps of:
S321: calculating PASEi by using the following formulas:
where G is the gain of the ith optical amplifier, and NF is the noise corresponding to G;
S322: obtaining the OSNRs without considering the OSNR penalty:
where Pout is the transmit power of the optical amplifier;
S323: obtaining the corresponding modulation format according to the comparison between the obtained OSNRs and the corresponding OSNR threshold, determining the corresponding OSNR penalty according to the modulation format, and deriving αi from OSNRpenalty=OSNRwc−OSNRNWC=10lg (PNCW/PWC);
S324: setting the cost of each link and each wavelength conversion node to PASEi and αi and substituting them into the formula (1) for calculation to obtain the corresponding OSNR; and
S325: comparing the OSNR of the links with each other and selecting the route with the highest OSNR for establishment of the optical channel.
A wavelength assignment device based on all-optical wavelength conversion includes:
a deployment unit configured to place a corresponding number of all-optical wavelength converters in a network node according to the principle of sparse wavelength converter placement; and
As a further improvement of the present invention, the deployment unit places the number Cs of all-optical wavelength converters in each network node by using the formula
where T is total number of wavelength converters in the whole network, N is the set of network nodes, and Vs is the total number of wavelength converters needed by each node.
As a further improvement of the present invention, the OSNR awareness route and wavelength assignment algorithm model is:
OSNRpenalty=OSNRwc−OSNRNWC=10lg(PNCW/PWC),
where OSNRwc represents the OSNR with a wavelength conversion system and OSNRNWC represents the OSNR without any wavelength conversion system, Pwc and PNWC represent noise power with and without a wavelength conversion system, with PNWC/Pwc being represented by a in the formula (1), and αj is the PNWC/Pwc of the jth all-optical wavelength converter.
Beneficial effects of the present invention: in the present invention, after AOWC is introduced, the route with the highest OSNR is selected for establishment of the optical channel in consideration of the signal penalty of AOWC, and impact of signal penalty on network performance improvement is reduced to the greatest extent while network resource assignment flexibility brought about by AOWC is ensured; meanwhile, the cost and penalty of AOWC are further reduced through sparse wavelength converter deployment.
The invention will be further explained with reference to the following drawings and particular embodiments, so that those skilled in the art can better understand the present invention and implement it. However, the cited embodiments should not be taken as limitation of the present invention.
Referring to
Specifically, the placing a corresponding number of all-optical wavelength converters in a network node according to the principle of sparse wavelength converter placement includes placing the number Cs of all-optical wavelength converters in each network node by using the formula
where T is total number of wavelength converters in the whole network, N is the set of network nodes, and Vs is the total number of wavelength converters needed by each node and can be defined here depending on the specific deployment conditions and requirements. Three modes of deployment are made as follows:
(1) Shortest route traversal number priority (SRT): first, the total number of traversals through each node by the fixed shortest route is calculated and defined as VS where s is the sequence number of the node. Then, a certain number of wavelength converters are placed in each node by using the formula
where T is the total number of wavelength converters in the whole network and N is the set of network nodes. The route traversal number represents how busy a node is. Placing converters in the busiest node can mitigate wavelength contention to the greatest extent and consequently improve blocking performance of the optical path.
(2) Maximum hop count priority (MH): first the maximum hop count in the fixed shortest route through the nodes is compared with each other and the maximum hop count is defined as VS; then the number of wavelength converters to be placed in each node is calculated by using the same formula as in the SRT strategy. Better performance can be achieved by placing more converters on the node with the greater maximum hop count.
(3) Block cause priority (BC): unlike the two strategies based on a fixed route as described above, this strategy is based on a wave plane algorithm. First, a blocked service is found according to the current resource state of the network. Then, assuming that all the nodes in the network have full wavelength conversion capability, an available route is found for each blocked service by using the adaptive shortest route algorithm. If an available route is found, the wavelength state on all the links in this route is checked, and it is determined in which node the wavelength converters are to be placed so that this route is successfully established. On this basis, the total number of wavelength converters needed by each node is calculated and defined as VS. Then the number of converters that should be placed in each node is calculated based on the same formula as in the SRT strategy. The greater a node has, the more it needs wavelength conversion.
In establishing the optical channel, the OSNR awareness route and wavelength assignment algorithm model is specifically:
where OSNRtotal represents the initial OSNR of the optical path and PASEi represents the ASE noise power of the jth optical amplifier;
OSNRpenalty=OSNRwc−OSNRNWC=10lg(PNCW/PWC)
where QSNRwc represents the OSNR with a wavelength conversion system and OSNRNWC represents the OSNR without any wavelength conversion system, PWC and PNWC represent noise power with and without a wavelength conversion system, with PNWC/Pwc being represented by α in the formula (1), and αj is the PNWC/Pwc of the jth all-optical wavelength converter; and
The present invention has considered the trade-off between signal penalty and network performance improvement with AOWC and proposes an optical path OSNR awareness route and wavelength assignment algorithm (RWA). Specifically, by selecting the route with the highest OSNR to establish the optical channel considering signal penalty with AOWC, impact of signal penalty on network performance improvement is reduced to the greatest extent, while network resource assignment flexibility brought about by AOWC is ensured. Also, to further reduce the AOWC cost, we studied the impact of sparse wavelength conversion on network performance.
An embodiment of the present invention further provides a wavelength assignment device based on all-optical wavelength conversion, including:
The principle is the same as the method described above and shall not be described again.
To establish the optical channel, first the OSNRs of the optical path is calculated by using the formulas (2), (3) and (4):
where G is the gain of the ith optical amplifier, and NF is the noise corresponding to G and Pout is the transmit power of the optical amplifier.
The OSNRs has taken into account the optic fiber transmission loss and amplifier spontaneous emission (ASE) noise but not the OSNR penalty. To calculate the OSNR penalty introduced by AOWC, a corresponding modulation format is obtained based on comparison between the obtained OSNRs and the corresponding OSNR threshold. The corresponding OSNR penalty is determined based on the modulation format. Then, αi is obtained from
OSNRpenalty=OSNRwc−OSNRNWC=10lg(PNCW/PWC)
as shown in Table 1:
The cost of each link and each wavelength conversion node is set to PASEi and αi which are substituted into the formula (1) for calculation to obtain the corresponding OSNR.
The OSNR of the links is compared with each other, and the route with the highest OSNR is selected to establish the optical channel.
As shown in
To evaluate performance of the present invention, a NSFNET network including 14 nodes and 21 links and a USNET network including 24 nodes and 43 links are used as the test networks, as shown in
According to the converter placement situations in Table 2, the optical path blocking performance is compared between different schemes, three placement strategies and the case without WC, in
The embodiments described above are only preferred embodiments for fully explaining the present invention, and the scope of protection of the present invention is not limited thereto. Equivalent substitutions or changes made by those skilled in the art on the basis of the present invention shall fall within the scope of protection of the present invention. The scope of protection of the present invention shall be defined by the claims.
Number | Date | Country | Kind |
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202111027199.3 | Sep 2021 | CN | national |
Filing Document | Filing Date | Country | Kind |
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PCT/CN2021/120148 | 9/24/2021 | WO |