Planning Optical Networks for Unexpected Traffic Growth

TL;DR

This paper presents a lightpath configuration algorithm for optical networks that leverages multi-period traffic modeling and BVT excess capacity to accommodate traffic growth over five years.

Contribution

It introduces a novel lightpath configuration algorithm that strategically exploits BVT excess capacity for long-term traffic growth management.

Findings

Offered traffic can be carried up to five years longer with the proposed method.

The algorithm effectively manages traffic growth in a realistic German core network.

Exploiting BVT excess capacity enhances network scalability.

Abstract

A lightpath configuration algorithm considering a multi-period traffic model is presented and evaluated to a realistic German core network study.~Strategically exploiting BVT excess capacity, we show that offered traffic can be carried up to an additional five years in all traffic growth scenarios.