Demonstrations of efficient online spectrum defragmentation in software-defined elastic optical networks

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 32, Issue 24, 2014, Pages 4701-4711

  Chen, Cen ^a   Chen, Xiaoliang ^a   Zhang, Mingyang ^a   Ma, Shoujiang ^a   Shao, Yan ^a   Li, Suoheng ^a   Suleiman, Munir Said ^a   Zhu, Zuqing ^a  

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

Author keywords

Adaptive defragmentation; Elastic optical network (EON); OpenFlow; Parallel defragmentation.; Software defined networking (SDN); Synchronous batch reconfiguration (SBR)

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE DEFINED NETWORKING;

DE-FRAGMENTATION; ELASTIC OPTICAL NETWORKS; OPENFLOW; SOFTWARE DEFINED NETWORKING (SDN); SYNCHRONOUS BATCH RECONFIGURATION (SBR);

FIBER OPTIC NETWORKS;

EID: 84910619086     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: 15582213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2014.2364515     Document Type: Article

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