On-demand spectrum and core allocation for reducing crosstalk in multicore fibers in elastic optical networks

Journal of Optical Communications and Networking

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 1059-1071

  Fujii, Shohei ^a   Hirota, Yusuke ^a   Tode, Hideki ^b   Murakami, Koso ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

Author keywords

Crosstalk; Dynamic control; Elastic optical network; Multi core fiber (MCF); Routing and spectrum assignment (RSA); Space division multiplexing (SDM)

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; BLOCKING PROBABILITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CROSSTALK; FIBERS; MULTIPLEXING; SINGLE MODE FIBERS;

DYNAMIC CONTROLS; ELASTIC OPTICAL NETWORKS; MULTI CORE; ROUTING AND SPECTRUM ASSIGNMENT (RSA); SPACE DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

SPACE DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS;

EID: 84919790681     PISSN: 19430620     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JOCN.2014.6985898     Document Type: Article

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