Calculating the Single-Link Performance for Space Division Multiplexing Elastic Optical Network

Space Division Multiplexing (SDM) technologies are known to elevate the Elastic Optical Network EON in order to cope with hyper-growth in demand for data through the addition of new space dimension. This work entails the development of an analytical approach to calculate the single link performance measurements. Notably, an analytical model is vital to network planners in order to asses resource allocation, fault tolerant mechanisms, as well as network dimensioning. Our model is based on the superposition concept applied to solve call blocking probabilities for EON and on the teletraffic engineering overflow system wherein rejected calls in one core are overflowed to the next core. We use simulation to validate the accuracy of our approach.