Analysis of optical packet loss rate under asymmetric traffic distribution in multi-fiber synchronous OPS switches

In this article, optical packet loss rate (PLR) is analyzed for an all-optical buffer-less OPS (optical packet switched) switch located in a multi-fiber OPS network, where the multifiber OPS (MOPS) switch uses only shared-per-link wavelength converters for contention resolution purposes. The analysis is provided to compute PLR under asymmetric traffic.