Design and performance evaluation of dynamic wavelength scheduled hybrid WDM/TDM PON for distributed computing applications

This paper investigates the design and implementation of distributed computing applications in local area network. We propose a novel Dynamical Wavelength Scheduled Hybrid WDM/TDM Passive Optical Network, which is termed as DWS-HPON. The system is implemented by using spectrum slicing techniques of broadband light source and overlay broadcast-signaling scheme. The Time-Wavelength Co-Allocation (TWCA) Problem is defined and an effective greedy approach to this problem is presented for aggregating large files in distributed computing applications. The simulations demonstrate that the performance is improved significantly compared with the conventional TDM-over-WDM PON.