Minimum-and maximum-entropy routing and spectrum assignment for flexgrid elastic optical networking [invited]

Journal of Optical Communications and Networking

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2015, Pages A66-A72

  Wright, Paul ^a   Parker, Michael C ^b   Lord, Andrew ^a  

^a MARTLESHAM HEATH   (United Kingdom)

^b Lexden Technologies   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Entropy; Networking; Optical communications; Routing

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; ENTROPY; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

NET WORK UTILIZATION; NETWORK TOPOLOGY; NETWORKING; OPTICAL NETWORKING; ROUTING; ROUTING AND SPECTRUM ASSIGNMENT (RSA); ROUTING AND SPECTRUM ASSIGNMENTS; SHANNON ENTROPY;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 84922311775     PISSN: 19430620     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOCN.7.000A66     Document Type: Article

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