
utilization as is often employed in electronic interconnect design. Link utilization
can, instead, be traded off to overcome the absence of efficient buffers. The
ultralow latency of optical signals, enabling path adjustments within the same
time slot, is a new technical possibility unique to photonic network and thus
requiring a different analysis. These differences among others clearly require a
new study of the network performance and the parameters that affect it.
Analysis of the network performance under different workload scenarios and
traffic conditions requires numerical simulations. It is beneficial if the simulation
program is highly modular ...