{"title":"On the Benefits of Probabilistic Constellation Shaping in Flex-Grid/MCF Dynamic Optical Backbone Networks","authors":"J. Perelló, J. Gené, S. Spadaro","doi":"10.23919/ONDM51796.2021.9492477","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/ONDM51796.2021.9492477","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we propose a novel methodology for estimating the worst-case spectral efficiency (b/s/Hz) of end-to-end paths across a Multi-Core Fiber (MCF)-enabled Flex-Grid optical network, accounting for physical link and intra-node noise, together with the inter-core crosstalk impairment appearing during the transmission of optical signals over MCFs. In particular, we employ the proposed methodology to quantify the benefits of Probabilistic Constellation Shaping (PCS) versus traditional polarization-multiplexed modulation formats in two reference backbone networks. From the obtained results, PCS yields admissible offered load gains close to 13% under 1% bandwidth blocking probability.","PeriodicalId":163553,"journal":{"name":"2021 International Conference on Optical Network Design and Modeling (ONDM)","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114262362","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
N. Tessema, G. Delrosso, S. Bhat, K. Prifti, A. Rasoulzadehzali, Yu Wang, T. Aalto, R. Stabile, N. Calabretta
{"title":"Wavelength selective photonic integrated switches for ROADM node functionality in ultrahigh capacity metro network","authors":"N. Tessema, G. Delrosso, S. Bhat, K. Prifti, A. Rasoulzadehzali, Yu Wang, T. Aalto, R. Stabile, N. Calabretta","doi":"10.23919/ONDM51796.2021.9492447","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/ONDM51796.2021.9492447","url":null,"abstract":"Photonic integrated wavelength selective switches are integral part of Reconfigurable add/drop multiplexer nodes and enable efficient utilization of resources in high-capacity metro networks. Photonic integrated wavelength selective switches play instrumental role in enabling dynamic reconfigurability and support efficient utilization of network resources. In this paper, design, and implementation of modular photonic integrated wavelength selective switches across integration platforms is presented. The modularity feature of the photonic integrated circuits (PIC) supports scalability for meeting the capacity requirement of the network. An experimental demonstration on a proof-of-concept SiPh/InP hybrid integrated wavelength selective switches is given. Results further verify the prospect of modular PIC implementation of WSS in fulfilling the dynamic re-configurability demand of high-capacity metro network.","PeriodicalId":163553,"journal":{"name":"2021 International Conference on Optical Network Design and Modeling (ONDM)","volume":"85 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114268218","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nour El Din El Sheikh, Esteban Paz, Juan Pinto, A. Beghelli
{"title":"Multi-band provisioning in dynamic elastic optical networks: a comparative study of a heuristic and a deep reinforcement learning approach","authors":"Nour El Din El Sheikh, Esteban Paz, Juan Pinto, A. Beghelli","doi":"10.23919/ONDM51796.2021.9492334","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/ONDM51796.2021.9492334","url":null,"abstract":"The blocking performance of a heuristic and a deep reinforcement learning approach for resource provisioning in a dynamic multi-band elastic optical network is evaluated. The heuristic is based on a previous proposal that prioritises the use of band C, then L, S, and E, in that order. The deep reinforcement learning approach uses a deep Q-network (DQN) agent trained on different multi-band scenarios. Results show, as expected, a significant decrease in blocking probability when moving from the C-band only scenario to the multi-band scenarios (C+L, C+L+S, C+L+S+E). However, the DQN agent did not outperform the heuristic. The lower performance of the agent, also observed in some previous works in optical networks, highlights the need for further research on how to better configure agents and improve the network representation used by the optical network environments.","PeriodicalId":163553,"journal":{"name":"2021 International Conference on Optical Network Design and Modeling (ONDM)","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122752835","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ryuji Munakata, Y. Mori, S. Subramaniam, M. Jinno, H. Hasegawa
{"title":"Design and Performance Evaluation of Resilient Optical Path Networks That Adopt Spatially-Jointed Flexible Waveband Routing","authors":"Ryuji Munakata, Y. Mori, S. Subramaniam, M. Jinno, H. Hasegawa","doi":"10.23919/ONDM51796.2021.9492351","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/ONDM51796.2021.9492351","url":null,"abstract":"We propose a survivable SDM optical network architecture that adopts dedicated path protection and spatially-jointed flexible waveband routing. With a proposed heuristics-based design algorithm that considers the limited number of flexible wavebands, we can achieve almost identical routing performance to conventional optical networks while reducing the hardware cost. Numerical simulations on several topologies elucidate that the number of flexible wavebands, equals to the degree of WSSs in the spatially-jointed switching mode, can be small. The total number of necessary WSSs is successfully reduced by 75%/91% relative to conventional SDM networks with core-wise/spatially-jointed switching nodes.","PeriodicalId":163553,"journal":{"name":"2021 International Conference on Optical Network Design and Modeling (ONDM)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122692043","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Scalable Recursive First Fit: An Optimal Solution to the Spectrum Allocation Problem","authors":"G. Rouskas, Chaitanya Bandikatla","doi":"10.23919/ONDM51796.2021.9492425","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/ONDM51796.2021.9492425","url":null,"abstract":"We revisit the classical spectrum allocation (SA) problem, a fundamental subproblem in optical network design, and make three contributions. First, we show how some SA problem instances may be decomposed into smaller instances that may be solved independently without loss of optimality. Second, we prove an optimality property of the well-known first-fit (FF) heuristic. Finally, we leverage this property to develop a recursive algorithm that applies the FF heuristic to find an optimal solution efficiently. This recursive first-fit (Rec-FF) algorithm complements our recent algorithm that recursively searches the routing space, and may be combined with it to solve large routing and spectrum allocation (RSA) problem instances to optimality.","PeriodicalId":163553,"journal":{"name":"2021 International Conference on Optical Network Design and Modeling (ONDM)","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125412105","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
P. Martelli, A. Gatto, M. Brunero, Dileepsai Bodanapu, M. Rapisarda, P. Comi, M. Martinelli
{"title":"Integration of QKD in WDM networks","authors":"P. Martelli, A. Gatto, M. Brunero, Dileepsai Bodanapu, M. Rapisarda, P. Comi, M. Martinelli","doi":"10.23919/ONDM51796.2021.9492394","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/ONDM51796.2021.9492394","url":null,"abstract":"The theme of the integration of Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) in existing WDM optical networks will be discussed. Some evaluations about a reduced-cost implementation of BB84 protocol for QKD will be presented, where a QKD channel in O band is added to classical C-band WDM channels in the same fiber.","PeriodicalId":163553,"journal":{"name":"2021 International Conference on Optical Network Design and Modeling (ONDM)","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124644822","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
F. Balasis, Y. Wakayama, N. Yoshikane, T. Tsuritani
{"title":"Investigating the Impact of Hybrid Raman-EDFAs in the Cost and Energy Efficiency of C+L Wideband Optical Networks","authors":"F. Balasis, Y. Wakayama, N. Yoshikane, T. Tsuritani","doi":"10.23919/ONDM51796.2021.9492494","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/ONDM51796.2021.9492494","url":null,"abstract":"This paper investigates the impact of using hybrid Raman EDFAs in the total number of required transponders and power consumption of a wideband C+L optical network. Results are obtained through ILP modeling.","PeriodicalId":163553,"journal":{"name":"2021 International Conference on Optical Network Design and Modeling (ONDM)","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131128368","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Tzanakaki, M. Anastasopoulos, Alexandros Manolopoulos, D. Simeonidou
{"title":"Mobility aware Dynamic Resource management in 5G Systems and Beyond","authors":"A. Tzanakaki, M. Anastasopoulos, Alexandros Manolopoulos, D. Simeonidou","doi":"10.23919/ONDM51796.2021.9492515","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/ONDM51796.2021.9492515","url":null,"abstract":"One of the fundamental challenges that needs to be addressed in 5G systems and beyond relates with delivery of demanding uninterrupted services to mobile users. In this context, optical transport networks play a key role as they facilitate disaggregation of the Radio Access and Core Network resources and the associated network functions. They can also enable disaggregation and dynamic allocation of compute resources and the relevant virtualised functions to address fast user mobility through solutions such as live VM migration. This paper presents relevant architectures and provide an evaluation analysis on the benefits of the proposed approach.","PeriodicalId":163553,"journal":{"name":"2021 International Conference on Optical Network Design and Modeling (ONDM)","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122555129","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Usage of a Graph Neural Network for Large-Scale Network Performance Evaluation","authors":"Cen Wang, N. Yoshikane, T. Tsuritani","doi":"10.23919/ONDM51796.2021.9492331","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/ONDM51796.2021.9492331","url":null,"abstract":"To quickly and accurately perform network evaluation, we propose a graph convolutional network-based performance evaluation method for ultralarge-scale networks. The learning results show that our method outperforms the fully connected network and convolutional neural network in the prediction error of the end-to-end latency and network throughput. In addition, we show that our method is significantly less time-consuming than traditional methods.","PeriodicalId":163553,"journal":{"name":"2021 International Conference on Optical Network Design and Modeling (ONDM)","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127504716","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Efficient Modeling of the Routing and Spectrum Allocation Problem for Flexgrid Optical Networks","authors":"B. Jaumard, Q. Nguyen","doi":"10.23919/ONDM51796.2021.9492442","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/ONDM51796.2021.9492442","url":null,"abstract":"While the problem of Routing and Spectrum Allocation (RSA) has been widely studied, very few studies attempt to solve realistic sized instances. Indeed, the state of the art is always below the standard transport capacity of a fiber link with 384 frequency slots, regardless of what the authors consider, heuristics or exact methods with a few exceptions. In this paper, we are interested in reducing the gap between realistic data sets and testbed instances that are often considered, using exact methods. Even if exact methods may fail to solve in reasonable time very large instances, they can, however, output solutions with a very good and proven accuracy. The novelty of this paper is to exploit the observations that optimal solutions contain a very large number of lightpaths associated with shortest paths or k-shortest paths with a small k. We propose an original efficient large-scale optimization model and decomposition algorithm to solve the RSA problem for flexgrid optical networks. It allows the exact or near optimal solution of much larger instances than in the literature.","PeriodicalId":163553,"journal":{"name":"2021 International Conference on Optical Network Design and Modeling (ONDM)","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125600976","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}