Green and double-win planning for IP over WDM optical networks

Saving the electrical requirements of network operators around the world makes power costs show a continuously decreasing trend. However, reducing the power costs is not only one way of gaining the marginal profit, a network operator also needs providing high-level quality of service (QoS), as well as employs effective strategies of pricing and hybrid grooming (i.e., integration of traffic grooming with an optical bypass) to make more users wish to pay the expense for their applications. In the final, users enjoy their services meanwhile operators obtain high profit in a power-efficient way, i.e., “double-win”. Accordingly, we propose the fast sub-optimal heuristics including Single-hop and Power-efficient Grooming algorithm based on Game theory (SPG2) as well as Multi-hop and Power-efficient Grooming algorithm based on Game theory (MPG2). Simulation results demonstrate that, compared with SPG2, MPG2 has the better comprehensive performance of both power efficiency and double-win between user and network operator in IP over WDM networks.