Abstract: In this paper the effect of dynamic wavelength allocation (DWA) scheme implementation to the OBS node performance is investigated. We have developed the mathematical model of an OBS node in order to evaluate the burst blocking probability. It is proposed to allocate a part of total wavelength capacity to be used by deflected bursts only. The results obtained from the model show that if the number of allocated wavelengths is dynamicaly adapted to the deflected burst traffic intensity, the total blocking probability and deflected burst blocking probability significantly decrease. Concerning to the hardware requirements the implementation of deflection routing needs the limitted optical FDL buffer incorporation, to provide the deflected burst with the extra offset time. Also, control logic for burst scheduler needs to be upgraded to perform the dynamic wavelength allocation for deflected bursts.
Keywords: Wavelength division multiplexing, optical burst switching, deflection routing, burst blocking probability, just enough time signaling, dynamic wavelength allocation.