Performance analysis of traffic groomed optical network

In this paper we carry out the performance analysis of traffic groomed multilayer optical networks. It is seen that the number of wavelength channels required decreases as the wavelength grooming factor increases. We have evaluated blocking probability for different load and grooming factor. The performance of the network has been evaluated for different conditions; first for fixed number of links with grooming factor set to 3 and subsequently with increase in grooming factor up to 18 in steps. The load on each link is selected as 2, 5, 9, 12, 15 and 20 Erlangs and the blocking probability as function of number of optical channels has been evaluated. In this work the effect of number of wavelength channels, traffic load and grooming factor on network blocking probability has been studied. The investigation reveals that the blocking probability decreases with increase in wavelength channels. Similarly we found that the blocking probability increases with increase in traffic load which is quite evident. Further it is shown that when the grooming factor is increased to significant value (16), the number of wavelengths requirement (8) becomes relatively stable.