On the effect of bandwidth fragmentation on blocking probability in elastic optical networks

IEEE Transactions on Communications

Volumn 61, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 2970-2978

  Shi, Weiran ^a   Zhu, Zuqing ^a   Zhang, Mingyang ^a   Ansari, Nirwan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bandwidth fragmentation; Blocking probability; Elastic optical networks

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH DISTRIBUTION; BANDWIDTH FRAGMENTATION; ELASTIC OPTICAL NETWORKS; MIXED EFFECTS; NETWORK OPERATOR; OPTICAL SPECTRA; SPECTRUM UTILIZATION; THEORETICAL MODELS;

SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

BLOCKING PROBABILITY;

EID: 84881133844     PISSN: 00906778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCOMM.2013.053013.120853     Document Type: Article

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