An Adaptive Routing and Resource Assignment Algorithm with Load Balancing in WDM-TDM Networks

Abstract

All-optical WDM networks are the most promising candidate for the next generation wideband backbone networks. To improve the utilization of wavelength, TDM technology is introduced into it. The routing, wavelength and time-slots assignment (RWTA) problem was studied in such time-space switched networks. A new adaptive algorithm was proposed which adopt adaptive network link weights and distribute slots of the session request on multiple different wavelengths adaptively with the remainder resource of the network. The effectiveness of the proposed algorithm is demonstrated by simulations and results show the better performance.