Model networks and their underlying topologies have been used as a reference for techno-economic studies for several decades. Existing reference topologies for optical networks may cover different network segments such as backbone, metro core, metro aggregation, access and/or data center. While telco operators work on the optimization of their own existing deployed optical networks, the availability of different topologies is useful for researchers and technology developers to test their solutions in a variety of scenarios and validate the performance in terms of energy efficiency or cost reduction. This paper presents an open-source tool, MoleNetwork, to generate graphs inspired by real network topologies of telecommunication operators that can be used as benchmarks for techno-economic studies.
@article{arxiv.2408.01721,
title = {MoleNetwork: A tool for the generation of synthetic optical network topologies},
author = {Alfonso Sánchez-Macián and Nataliia Koneva and Marco Quagliotti and José M. Rivas-Moscoso and Farhad Arpanaei and José Alberto Hernández and Juan P. Fernández-Palacios and Li Zhang and Emilio Riccardi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.01721},
year = {2024}
}