WDM Star Subnetwork Upgrade of Optical Ring Networks for Maximum Spatial Reuse Under Multicast Traffic

The authors examine a recently proposed multichannel upgrade of optical single-channel ring networks where a subset of ring nodes is WDM upgraded and interconnected by a single-hop star WDM sub-network in a pay-as-you-grow fashion. This evolutionary approach not only allows for fast and efficient multiple-failure recovery but also is well suited to efficiently sustain unpredictable changes and shifts in traffic loads. In this paper, they analytically investigate the maximum achievable capacity of the WDM star sub-network upgrade of optical single-channel networks under a variety of unicast and multicast traffic scenarios and compare it to that of conventional WDM ring networks.