Title :
Benefits of active stateful PCE for flexgrid networks
Author :
Cugini, F. ; Paolucci, Francesco ; Fresi, Francesco ; Meloni, Gianluca ; Berrettini, G. ; Sambo, Nicola ; Giorgetti, A. ; Foggi, T. ; Poti, Luca ; Castoldi, Piero
Author_Institution :
CNIT, Pisa, Italy
Abstract :
Relevant benefits of the active stateful PCE architecture are experimentally demonstrated on a flexgrid network testbed. Two experiments are reported, including a first demo on PCE-controlled code-adaptation applied to a 1Tb/s super-channel.
Keywords :
optical fibre networks; optimisation; PCE-controlled code-adaptation; active stateful PCE architecture; flexgrid optical networks; path computation element architecture; Computer architecture; Degradation; Encoding; Modulation; Optical fiber networks; Optical switches; Parity check codes;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC), 2014
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-5575-2994-7
DOI :
10.1364/OFC.2014.Th3I.1
