Bandwidth allocation algorithm for aggregated tree in optical networks

Wavelength and bandwidth allocation is important for multicast communication in optical networks. In this paper, a new method based on scheduling theory is proposed. The proposed method formulates wavelength bandwidth capacity as a large rectangle and these multicast stream bandwidth requirements as small rectangles. It treats the wavelength and bandwidth allocation question as a rectangle packing problem. The proposed algorithm solves the problem by taking quasi-human strategy with Euclidian distance. It is an effective heuristic algorithm to quickly solve multicast stream bandwidth allocation problem in optical networks by theoretic analysis. Further simulation experiments show the bandwidth allocation algorithm can increase network utilization and have a good fairness performance for unicast stream and multicast stream in optical networks. The results indicate the effectiveness of the algorithm.