Elastic bandwidth allocation in flexible OFDM-based optical networks

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 29, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1354-1366

  Christodoulopoulos, K ^a,b   Tomkos, I ^c   Varvarigos, E A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b University of Patras and Computer Technology Institute   (Greece)

^c ATHENS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Elastic flexible spectrum optical paths; non overlapping spectrum contraints; optical OFDM; planning (offline) problem; routing modulation level and spectrum allocation; spectrum continuity constraint

Indexed keywords

NON-OVERLAPPING SPECTRUM CONTRAINTS; OPTICAL OFDM; OPTICAL PATH; ROUTING MODULATION LEVEL AND SPECTRUM ALLOCATION; SPECTRUM CONTINUITY CONSTRAINT;

BANDWIDTH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FIBER OPTIC NETWORKS; FREQUENCY ALLOCATION; HEURISTIC ALGORITHMS; MODULATION; ORTHOGONAL FUNCTIONS; SIMULATED ANNEALING; SPECTRUM ANALYZERS; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

EID: 79955408435     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2011.2125777     Document Type: Article

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