Quantifying spectrum, cost, and energy efficiency in fixed-grid and flex-grid networks [Invited]

Journal of Optical Communications and Networking

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Palkopoulou, E ^a   Angelou, M ^a,b   Klonidis, D ^a   Christodoulopoulos, K ^c   Klekamp, A ^d   Buchali, F ^d   Varvarigos, E ^e   Tomkos, I ^a  

^a ATHENS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^c TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^d LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Cost analysis; Energy efficiency; Flexible optical networking; Optical OFDM

Indexed keywords

ADDITIONAL COSTS; BIT RATES; CHANNEL RATES; COST ANALYSIS; COST VALUES; MULTI CARRIER; OPTICAL CROSS CONNECTS; OPTICAL NETWORKING; OPTICAL OFDM; SPECTRUM UTILIZATION; TRAFFIC LOADS;

COST ACCOUNTING; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; TRANSPONDERS;

COSTS;

EID: 84870552719     PISSN: 19430620     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOCN.4.000B42     Document Type: Article

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