SIGNAL TRANSMISSION SYSTEM AND SIGNAL TRANSMISSION METHOD
A signal transmission system that includes a plurality of transceivers that transmits and receives an optical signal, a gateway that receives the optical signal transmitted by the transceiver, performs optical-electrical conversion and electrical-optical conversion for the received optical signal, and outputs the converted optical signal, an optical switch, a transceiver control unit that controls an operation of the transceiver, and a management unit that determines the wavelength of the optical signal transmitted by the transceiver, in which the management unit determines the wavelength of the optical signal to be transmitted by a transmission-scheduled transceiver that is the transceiver scheduled to transmit the optical signal according to a predetermined rule in a case of acquiring transmission schedule notification information indicating the transmission-scheduled transceiver, and after the determination of the wavelength, the transceiver control unit causes the transmission-scheduled transceiver to transmit the optical signal of the determined wavelength.
1 . A signal transmission system comprising:
a plurality of transceivers that transmits and receives an optical signal;
a gateway that receives the optical signal transmitted by the transceiver, performs optical-electrical conversion and electrical-optical conversion for the received optical signal, and outputs the converted optical signal;
an optical switch that includes a port connected to the transceiver and a port connected to the gateway, and outputs the optical signal to a port corresponding to a wavelength of the optical signal input to the port;
a first processor;
a first storage medium having computer program instructions stored thereon, wherein the computer program instruction, when executed by the first processor, perform processing of:
determining the wavelength of the optical signal transmitted by the transceiver, and
determining the wavelength of the optical signal to be transmitted by a transmission-scheduled transceiver that is the transceiver scheduled to transmit the optical signal according to a predetermined rule in a case of acquiring transmission schedule notification information indicating the transmission-scheduled transceiver; and
a second processor;
a second storage medium having computer program instructions stored thereon, wherein the computer program instruction, when executed by the second processor, perform processing of:
controlling an operation of the transceiver;
causing the transmission-scheduled transceiver to transmit the optical signal of the determined wavelength, after the determination of the wavelength.
2 . The signal transmission system according to claim 1 , wherein
the rule is a rule for determining, on the basis of first correspondence information that is information indicating a one-to-one relationship between each of the transceivers and the wavelength of the optical signal, the wavelength of the optical signal to be transmitted by the transmission-scheduled transceiver at the wavelength indicated by the first correspondence information.
3 . The signal transmission system according to claim 1 , wherein
the rule is a rule for determining the wavelength on the basis of information indicating a transmission destination of the optical signal scheduled to be transmitted by the transmission-scheduled transceiver.
4 . The signal transmission system according to claim 3 , wherein
the rule is a rule for determining, as the wavelength of the optical signal to be transmitted by the transmission-scheduled transceiver, a wavelength associated in advance with each set of the transmission-scheduled transceiver and the transmission destination of the optical signal scheduled to be transmitted by the transmission-scheduled transceiver.
5 . The signal transmission system according to claim 3 , wherein
the rule is a rule for determining, as the wavelength of the optical signal to be transmitted by the transmission-scheduled transceiver, a wavelength associated in advance with each set of the transmission-scheduled transceiver, the transmission destination of the optical signal scheduled to be transmitted by the transmission-scheduled transceiver, and a packet amount of the optical signal.
6 . The signal transmission system according to claim 1 , wherein
the computer program instruction stored in the first storage medium, when executed by the first processor, perform processing of:
determining the port to which the optical signal scheduled to be transmitted by the transmission-scheduled transceiver is input and the port from which the optical signal is output, in addition to the determination of the wavelength.
7 . The signal transmission system according to claim 1 , wherein
he computer program instruction stored in the first storage medium, when executed by the first processor, perform processing of:
executing transmission satisfying a grouping transmission condition including a condition that a plurality of the transceivers is regrouped every predetermined unit time, a condition that signal transmission not via the gateway is performed only between the transceivers in each group during the unit time, and a condition that an arbitrary transceiver of the transceivers is connected to another transceiver of the transceivers at least once in a predetermined unit period T longer than the unit time.
8 . A signal transmission method executed by a signal transmission system that includes
a plurality of transceivers that transmits and receives an optical signal;
a gateway that receives the optical signal transmitted by the transceiver, performs optical-electrical conversion and electrical-optical conversion for the received optical signal, and outputs the converted optical signal;
an optical switch that includes a port connected to the transceiver and a port connected to the gateway, and outputs the optical signal to a port corresponding to a wavelength of the optical signal input to the port;
a first processor;
a first storage medium having computer program instructions stored thereon, wherein the computer program instruction, when executed by the first processor, perform processing of:
determining the wavelength of the optical signal transmitted by the transceiver, and
determining the wavelength of the optical signal to be transmitted by a transmission-scheduled transceiver that is the transceiver scheduled to transmit the optical signal according to a predetermined rule in a case of acquiring transmission schedule notification information indicating the transmission-scheduled transceiver; and
a second processor;
a second storage medium having computer program instructions stored thereon, wherein the computer program instruction, when executed by the second processor, perform processing of:
controlling an operation of the transceiver;
causing the transmission-scheduled transceiver to transmit the optical signal of the determined wavelength, after the determination of the wavelength,
the signal transmission method comprising:
determining the wavelength of the optical signal to be transmitted by a transmission-scheduled transceiver that is the transceiver scheduled to transmit the optical signal according to a predetermined rule in a case of acquiring transmission schedule notification information indicating the transmission-scheduled transceiver; and
causing, after the determination of the wavelength the transmission-scheduled transceiver to transmit the optical signal of the determined wavelength.