“…In the lightwave resource assignment aspect, several mechanisms have been developed such as source-initiated reservation [1] , destination-initiated reservation [1] , first fit (FF) [1] , random fit (RF) [1] , contention detection (CD) [2] , collision-aware first fit (CAFF) [3] , circular wavelengthlist (CWL) [4] , and wavelength pre-assignment collision schedule (WPCS) [5] , among others. However, these schemes mainly focus on bandwidth availability.…”