RWA scheme minimizing FWM effect in a wide area optical network

In WDM based fiber optic communication systems, nonlinearities deteriorate network performance. A channel wavelength assignment scheme is required which not only minimize the FWM effect but also the network delay produced during assignment process. Wavelength assignment schemes along with impairment constraint based routing (ICBR) is proposed which minimizes the effect of four wave mixing and network delay in WAN. Results have been obtained for 8 and 16 equally spaced channels and observed that for equally spaced channels, in comparison with adjacent-next channel assignment scheme the proposed channel assignment scheme gives improvement in the results in terms of lower power of FWM products and lower number of in-band FWM products. Unlike existing channel assignment schemes the algorithm is simple and there is no need to calculate the FWM effect for each channel before assigning it hence reduction in network delay. Calculations have been obtained for point to point multi-fiber link of 1000 km, when power launched per channel is 1 mW for amplified wavelength convertible WAN with amplifier placement of 50 km apart.