Green optical orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing networks

• Published in: IET optoelectronics Vol. 8; no. 3; pp. 137 - 148
• Main Authors: El-Gorashi, Taisir E.H, Dong, Xiaowen, Elmirghani, Jaafar M.H
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Stevenage The Institution of Engineering and Technology 01.06.2014; The Institution of Engineering & Technology
• Subjects: bandwidth allocation; bandwidth wastage; Computer networks; data centres; elastic optical networks; energy conservation; energy efficiency; green optical orthogonal frequency‐division multiplexing networks; heterogeneous traffic demands; integer programming; Internet protocol; linear programming; mixed integer linear programming model; modulation adaptive bandwidth allocation; network power consumption; Networks; OFDM; OFDM modulation; Optical communication; optical fibre networks; optical layer power consumption; Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing; Power consumption; power savings; rate adaptive bandwidth allocation; symmetric traffic; Traffic engineering; Traffic flow; Wavelength division multiplexing; wavelength division multiplexing networks; WDM; modulation adaptive bandwidth allocation; integer programming; OFDM; linear programming; data centres; power consumption; rate adaptive bandwidth allocation; symmetric traffic; energy efficiency; OFDM modulation; optical communication; optical layer power consumption; WDM; wavelength division multiplexing networks; bandwidth wastage; Internet protocol; network power consumption; elastic optical networks; bandwidth allocation; heterogeneous traffic demands; energy conservation; optical fibre networks; power savings; mixed integer linear programming model; green optical orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing networks
• ISSN: 1751-8768; 1751-8776; 1751-8776
• DOI: 10.1049/iet-opt.2013.0046

Orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) has been proposed as an enabling technique for elastic optical networks to support heterogeneous traffic demands by enabling rate and modulation adaptive bandwidth allocation. The authors investigate the energy efficiency of optical OFDM-based networks. A mixed integer linear programming model is developed to minimise the total power consumption of rate and modulation adaptive optical OFDM networks. Considering a symmetric traffic, the results show that optical OFDM-based networks can save up to 31% of the total network power consumption compared to conventional Internet protocol over wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) networks. Considering the power consumption of the optical layer, the optical OFDM-based network saves up to 55% of the optical layer power consumption. The results also show that under an asymmetric traffic scenario, where more traffic is destined to or originates from popular nodes, for example data centres, the power savings achieved by the optical OFDM-based networks are limited as the higher traffic demands to and from data centres reduce the bandwidth wastage associated with conventional WDM networks. Furthermore, the achievable power savings through data compression have been investigated, considering an optical OFDM-based network.