Cost evaluation for flexible-grid optical networks

2012 IEEE Globecom Workshops, GC Wkshps 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 358-363

  Vizcaino, Jorge Lopez ^a,c   Ye, Yabin ^a   Lopez, Victor ^b   Jimenez, Felipe ^b   Duque, Raul ^b   Krummrich, Peter M ^c  

^a EUROPEAN RESEARCH CENTER   (Germany)

^b TELEFONICA RESEARCH   (Spain)

^c TU DORTMUND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

cost; energy efficiency; flexible grid; OFDM based network; optical transport network; protection

Indexed keywords

COST BENEFITS; COST EVALUATIONS; ELASTIC NETWORKS; FLEXIBLE-GRID; NETWORK SCENARIO; OPTICAL TRANSPORT NETWORKS; PROTECTION; PROTECTION SCHEMES;

COSTS; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; SIGNAL SYSTEMS;

FIBER OPTIC NETWORKS;

EID: 84875662609     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/GLOCOMW.2012.6477597     Document Type: Conference Paper

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