Limits on the Traffic Carrying Capacity of Optical Networks With an Arbitrary Topology

Impact of topology on the performance of communication networks

“…Under heavy load situations, the number of reattempts might result in even lower fraction of the calls materializing resulting in lower throughput [3]. It has been shown that as the incident traffic increases, the carried traffic in a multi-hop circuit switched network reaches a peak and then drops to zero, while the carried single hop traffic goes to an asymptotic limit.…”

“…This problem has been addressed in [1] where the authors have shown that the throughput declines rather sharply as the number of hops increases. Results presented in [1][2][3] provide ample motivation for studying how different network topologies would affect network performance.…”

“…In recent work [1][2][3], the impact of the number of hops between the source and the destination on delay and throughput performance of multi-hop communication networks has been investigated. Through analytical and simulation results, the papers show how the number of hops between the source and the destination node affects the throughput of these networks.…”