Author(s)

K. Sasi Kala Rani¹, A. Renuga Devi², J. Suganthi¹

¹Hindusthan Institute of Technology, Coimbatore, India.
²Hindusthan College of Engineering and Technology, Coimbatore, India.

An optical network is a type of data communication network built with optical fibre technology. It utilizes optical fibre cables as the primary communication medium for converting data and passing data as light pulses between sender and receiver nodes. The major issue in optical networking is disjoints that occur in the network. A polynomial time algorithm Wavelength Division Multiplexing-Passive Optical Networking (WDM-PON) computes disjoints of an optical network and reduces the count of disjoints that occur in the network by separating Optical Network Units (ONU) into several virtual point-to-point connections. The Arrayed Waveguide Grating (AWG) filter is included in WDM-PON to avoid the traffic in the network thereby increasing the bandwidth capacity. In case of a failure or disjoint Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) algorithm is used to find the optimized shortest path for re-routing. For enhanced security, modified Rivert Shamir Adleman (RSA) algorithm encrypts the message during communication between the nodes. The efficiency is found to be improved in terms of delay in packet delivery, longer optical reach, optimized shortest path, packet error rate.

Optical Network, Disjoints, Wavelength Division Multiplexing, Passive Optical Networking, Optical Network Units, Arrayed Waveguide Grating, Ant Colony Optimization

Rani, K. , Devi, A. and Suganthi, J. (2016) Optimization of Disjoints Using WDM-PON in an Optical Network. Circuits and Systems, 7, 2207-2216. doi: 10.4236/cs.2016.79192.