• DocumentCode
    3701107
  • Title

    Enhanced inherent survivability to link failures at low link margin in a flexgrid optical network

  • Author

    Abhijit Mitra;Andrew Lord;Subrat Kar;Paul Wright

  • Author_Institution
    British Telecom, IIT Delhi, India
  • fYear
    2015
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    We investigate Elastic Optical Networks under fiber failures. In the low Link Margin regime, up to 43% of affected demands are accommodated in existing higher QAM lightpaths.
  • Keywords
    "Optical fiber networks","Bandwidth","Signal to noise ratio","Optical noise","Telecommunications","Maintenance engineering","Quadrature amplitude modulation"
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Communication (ECOC), 2015 European Conference on
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ECOC.2015.7341802
  • Filename
    7341802