Operation of WDM networks with different wavelength conversion capabilities

We study the impact of wavelength conversion capability on wavelength routi ng WDM networks with fixed shortest-path routing. We propose a method for i mplementing wavelength routing in a WDM network with partial wavelength con version capability, Simulation results show that such partial wavelength co nversion networks provide a performance in between that of wavelength conti nuous networks and those with full conversion capability. In addition, it c an be seen that only limited wavelength conversion capability is enough to provide a performance close to that of a network with full conversion, Anal ytical and simulation bounding results for the full and no conversion cases have also been provided.