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Analysis of HotPotato Optical Networks with Wavelength Conversion Alb erto Bononi Universita di Parma Dipartimento di Ingegneria del lInformazione Parma I Italy Gerardo A Castan on and Ozan K Tonguz SUNY at Bualo Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering Bualo NY USA Abstract Wavelength conversion has b een shown to re dent packet streams duce the probability of blo cking in b oth circuitswitching The analysis shows that the cheap er less greedy ac and packetswitching wavelength routed optical networks cess schemes give b etter throughputdelay gures at high WRONs The eectiveness of the blo cking reduction de loads than the more exp ensive scheme with tunable trans p ends on the top ology and is known to b e b est for meshed mitters The results show that slotted hotp otato meshed top ologies where the average numb er of hops p er path is networks with no des with more than wavelengths and large This pap er shows that by exploiting wavelength con wavelength conversion can work at full load with a hop de version routing without buers known as hotpotato b e lay within one hop from its lowest achievable value no de comes an interesting option for packet switching WRONs ections The probability of deection can b e made quite with meshed top ologies such as Manhattan Street MS low by increasing the numb er of wavelengths It is also Network and ShueNet SN The results show that by shown that for high sp eed packet switching applications using more than wavelengths a no de MS or SN net wavelength conversion in WRONs is a less eective way of work can