Next generation elastic optical networks: The vision of the European research project IDEALIST

IEEE Communications Magazine

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 152-162

  Napoli, Antonio ^a   Bohn, Marc ^a   Rafique, Danish ^a   Stavdas, Alexandros ^b   Sambo, Nicola ^c   Poti, Luca ^c   Nolle, Markus ^d   Fischer, Johannes Karl ^d   Riccardi, Emilio ^e   Pagano, Annachiara ^e   Di Giglio, Andrea ^e   Moreolo, Michela Svaluto ^f   Fabrega, Josep Maria ^f   Hugues Salas, Emilio ^g   Zervas, Georgios ^g   Simeonidou, Dimitra ^g   Layec, Patricia ^h   D'Errico, Antonio ⁱ   Rahman, Talha ^j   Gimenez, Juan Pedro Fernandez Palacios ^k  

^a Coriant R and D GmbH ^*  (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PELOPONNESE   (Greece)

^c CNIT ^*  (France)

^d FRAUNHOFER HEINRICH HERTZ INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^e TELECOM ITALIA   (Italy)

^f CENTRE TECNOLÒGIC DE TELECOMUNICACIONS DE CATALUNYA CTTC   (Spain)

^g UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^h NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

ⁱ Ericsson Telecomunicazioni SPA   (Italy)

^j EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^k TELEFONICA RESEARCH   (Spain)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE OPTICS; BANDWIDTH; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; NETWORK LAYERS;

ELASTIC OPTICAL NETWORKS; EUROPEAN RESEARCH PROJECT; FUNDAMENTAL BUILDING BLOCKS; INTERNET TRAFFIC; MODULATION FORMATS; NETWORK SCENARIO; NODE ARCHITECTURES; SPECTRAL EFFICIENCIES;

NEXT GENERATION NETWORKS;

EID: 84923870249     PISSN: 01636804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MCOM.2015.7045404     Document Type: Article

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