• DocumentCode
    1946165
  • Title

    Interest of the MIXGRID setup for elastic spectral efficiency

  • Author

    Zami, Thierry

  • Author_Institution
    Alcatel-Lucent, Nozay, France
  • fYear
    2013
  • fDate
    22-26 Sept. 2013
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    We quantify the benefit of elastic WDM networks aligning channels on one irregular grid of optical frequencies on all their transmission links to mitigate the routing constraints. The channels are modulated at constant baud rate with variable bit rate.
  • Keywords
    telecommunication network routing; wavelength division multiplexing; MIXGRID setup; elastic WDM networks; elastic spectral efficiency; irregular grid; optical frequencies; routing constraints;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    iet
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Communication (ECOC 2013), 39th European Conference and Exhibition on
  • Conference_Location
    London
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-84919-759-5
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1049/cp.2013.1643
  • Filename
    6647836