Active PCE demonstration performing elastic operations and hitless defragmentation in flexible grid optical networks

Photonic Network Communications

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 57-66

  Paolucci, Francesco ^a   Castro, Alberto ^b   Fresi, Francesco ^a   Imran, Muhammad ^a   Giorgetti, Alessio ^a   Bhownik, Bishanka Brata ^a   Berrettini, Gianluca ^a   Meloni, Gianluca ^c   Cugini, Filippo ^c   Velasco, Luis ^b   Potì, Luca ^c   Castoldi, Piero ^a  

^a SCUOLA SUPERIORE SANT ANNA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^c CNIT   (Italy)

Author keywords

Active stateful; Elastic operation; Hitless defragmentation; PCE; Spectrum switched optical networks; Superchannel

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER NETWORKS; PHOTONICS;

ACTIVE STATEFUL; DE-FRAGMENTATION; ELASTIC OPERATION; PCE; SUPERCHANNEL;

SWITCHING CIRCUITS;

EID: 84924035840     PISSN: 1387974X     EISSN: 15728188     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11107-014-0464-0     Document Type: Article

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