Design and Analysis of QoS based Optimized Novel Optical Network Emulator for WDM Technology

Network emulation is an important tool before doing experiments on real-time hardware. In case of unavailability of test-bed for optical networks such simulation platform are of great help. Accounting for system virtualization, which is currently being supported by modern operating systems, we present architecture for optical virtual private network (OVPN) emulation platform. In OVPN, Quality of Service (QoS) decides the performance of communication system. To get more accurate QoS, various network and physical layer parameters are considered and based of the highest QoS value and a threshold, best route calculation is derived. So it is thought of interest to develop a network emulation platform for QoS based OPVN path evaluation of optical networks. This tool can help with the calculations and estimations of path, way prior to real-time implementations and deployments.