Traffic-based adaptive bandwidth adjustment for flexible OTN connectivity in optical networks

Abstract

In conventional optical transport networks, the service form is the fixed bandwidth connectivity, which is not flexible for carrying bursting traffic. To support the time-varying traffic in an efficient way, researchers are studying the optical service units for building the more flexible optical transport network (OTN) connectivity, which is capable of dynamic hitless bandwidth adjustment. To better utilize the benefits of flexible connectivity, network operators need efficient algorithms to adjust the flexible connectivity bandwidth, especially in the network with a massive number of connections. In this paper, based on max-min fair bandwidth allocation criteria, we propose two traffic-based adaptive bandwidth adjustment algorithms to make bandwidth adjustment decisions, with the aim to improve bandwidth effectiveness. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithms can improve bandwidth utilization by up to 16%. Additionally, under high load conditions, it can reduce the loss in traffic bitrate by a maximum of 10%.