Banca de DEFESA: ADRIANA DE NAZARE FARIAS DA ROSA
Uma banca de DEFESA de DOUTORADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
DISCENTE: ADRIANA DE NAZARE FARIAS DA ROSA
DATA: 26/06/2015
HORA: 15:00
LOCAL: Auditorio do Instituto de Tecnologia - ITEC
TÍTULO:
MODELING AND PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF DYNAMIC SPECTRUM ALLOCATION SCHEMES IN ELASTIC OPTICAL NETWORKS
PALAVRAS-CHAVES:
ELASTIC OPTICAL NETWORKS; SPECTRUM ALLOCATION. SPECTRUM FRAGMENTATION. BLOCKING PROBABILITY. MARKOV MODELING
PÁGINAS: 50
GRANDE ÁREA: Engenharias
ÁREA: Engenharia Elétrica
RESUMO:
The current trends in optical fiber communications are rapidly approaching the physical capacity
limit of standard optical fiber. It is becoming increasingly important to efficiently utilize spectral resources
wisely to accommodate the ever-increasing Internet traffic demand. However, the rigid and coarse ITU-T grid
specifications regarding the spectrum usage restrict the granularity of bandwidth segmentation and allocation,
which frequently causes a mismatch between the allocated and the actual requested link bandwidth. This often
leads to over provisioning, where usually more resources are provided than necessary. Recently, the concept
of elastic optical networks (EONs) has been proposed in order to reduce the waste of spectra resources. In
networks with such feature enabled, modulation parameters and central frequencies are not fixed as in the
traditional WDM networks: the resources can be allocated with fine granularity, which can adapt to the
granularity of the requested bandwidth without over provisioning. This results in efficient usage of spectra
resources. However, elastic optical networks must satisfy dynamic connection add and drop over spectral
resources that inevitable results in fragmentation of the spectrum. In EONs, spectrum fragmentation is an
important and inevitable problem, because it reduces the spectral efficiency. As consequence, the blocking
probability (BP) is increased due to scattered gaps in the optical grid. Currently, several metrics have been
proposed in order to quantify a level of spectrum fragmentation. Approximation methods might be used for
estimating average blocking probability and some fragmentation measures, but are so far unable to accurately
evaluate the influence of different requested connection bandwidths and do not allow in-depth investigation of
blocking events and their relation to fragmentation. This thesis presents the analytical study of the effect of
fragmentation on requests' blocking probability, which is still under-explored. In this study, new definitions for
blocking that differentiate between the reasons for the blocking events were introduced. An analytical framework based on Markov modeling was proposed in order to calculate steady-state probabilities for the
different blocking events and to analyze fragmentation related problems in elastic optical links under dynamic
traffic conditions. Statistical investigations were derived in order to investigate how different allocation request
sizes contribute to fragmentation and blocking probability. This work is complemented with the introduction of
a new accommodated fragmentation metric that allows better differentiating between very small variations of
spectrum occupancy. Moreover, we show to which extend blocking events, due to insufficient amount of
available resources, become inevitable and, comparing to the amount of blocking events due to fragmented
spectrum, we draw conclusions on the possible gains one can achieve by system defragmentation. We also
show how efficient spectrum allocation policies really are in reducing the part of fragmentation that in particular
leads to actual blocking events. Simulation experiments are carried out showing good match with our
analytical results for blocking probability in a small scale scenario. Simulated blocking probabilities for the
different blocking events are provided for a larger scale elastic optical link.
MEMBROS DA BANCA:
Presidente - 2153181 - JOAO CRISOSTOMO WEYL ALBUQUERQUE COSTA
Interno - 1353026 - CARLOS RENATO LISBOA FRANCES
Externo à Instituição - MARCELO EDUARDO VIEIRA SEGATTO
Externo à Instituição - MARIA JOSE PONTES
Externo à Instituição - MARIA THEREZA MIRANDA ROCCO GIRALDI
Externo à Instituição - SOLON VENÂNCIO DE CARVALHO