Traffic grooming and spectrum assignment for coherent transceivers in metro-flexible networks

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 183-186

  Rottondi, Cristina ^a   Tornatore, Massimo ^a   Pattavina, Achille ^a   Gavioli, Giancarlo ^b  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Metro network; optical coherent transmission; ring network; traffic grooming

Indexed keywords

BAUD RATE; BIT RATES; COHERENT TRANSCEIVER; COHERENT TRANSMISSION; CORE NETWORKS; DATA RATES; FIXED GRIDS; METRO NETWORKS; MODULATION FORMATS; OPTICAL TRANSMISSION TECHNOLOGY; RING NETWORKS; SPECTRUM ASSIGNMENT; TRAFFIC FLOW; TRAFFIC GROOMING; WAVELENGTH-DIVISION MULTIPLEXING SYSTEM;

LIGHT TRANSMISSION; METROPOLITAN AREA NETWORKS; MODULATION; MULTIPLEXING EQUIPMENT; SUBWAYS;

TRANSCEIVERS;

EID: 84872323573     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2012.2228479     Document Type: Article

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