Performance evaluation of wavelength assignment and collision diminution for WDM switch

Abstract

This paper is aimed to evaluate the WDM technique for an optical switch in the optical access network. The design and performance parameters consist of the inbound offered load, number of wavelengths, switch size and normalized throughput. Also, it explores the wavelength domain to demonstrate the possibility of appropriation wavelength assignment in enhancing the network throughput. The simulation results show that the proposed scheme is promising hence offers low packet queuing delay. Consequently, this paper investigates the integration of the wavelength assignment scheme on top of the optical layer. This paper appears as the resolution in minimizing the chances of packet collisions via an eccentric approach in exploiting the substantial bandwidth of WDM system. This work offers flexibility as well as scalability in the high speed optical environment.