Planning fixed to flexgrid gradual migration: Drivers and open issues

IEEE Communications Magazine

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 70-76

  Ruiz, Marc ^a   Velasco, Luis ^a   Lord, Andrew ^b   Fonseca, Daniel ^c   Pióro, Michal ^d,e   Wessäly, Roland ^f   Fernández Palacios, Juan P ^g  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b BT Group   (United Kingdom)

^c Coriant Portugal ^*  (Portugal)

^d WARSAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^e LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^f ZUSE INSTITUTE BERLIN   (Germany)

^g Telefónica Investigación y Desarrollo   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING;

FIXED GRID NETWORKS; FIXED GRIDS; MIGRATION PROCESS; OPTICAL CONNECTION; TIME VARYING; TRAFFIC VOLUMES;

ELASTICITY;

EID: 84893374967     PISSN: 01636804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MCOM.2014.6710066     Document Type: Article

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