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1668 JOURNAL OF LIGHTWAVE TECHNOLOGY, VOL. 22, NO. 7, JULY 2004 An Evaluation of Distributed Wavelength Provisioning in WDM Optical Networks With Sparse Wavelength Conversion Gaoxi Xiao, Member, IEEE, Kejie Lu, Member, IEEE, and Imrich Chlamtac, Fellow, IEEE Abstract—Distributed wavelength provisioning is becoming one are kept unchanged for a long time (days, weeks, or even of the most important technologies for supporting next-generation months), dynamic provisioning is considered the wave of the optical networks. This paper describes the evaluation of the per- future as it can achieve higher network resources utilization and formance of distributed wavelength provisioning in wavelength- division-multiplexing (WDM) optical networks with sparse wave- better robustness, as well as the flexibility expected in future length conversion (i.e., where wavelength conversion is available applications environments [2]. at only a subset of network nodes).Using the well-known destina- Dynamic wavelength provisioning in WDM networks can tion-initiated reservation method as a case study, a highly accu- be handled in a centralized or distributed way. In centralized rate analytical model supported by comprehensive simulation val- wavelength provisioning with information available at a single idation is proposed. Both analytical and simulation results show that, in optical networks with distributed wavelength provisioning, location, the required lightpaths may be allocated more effi- sparse wavelength conversion still helps to significantly lower the ciently as long as optical networks remain relatively small and connection-blocking probabilities. Howeve