Title :
Energy and spectrum efficiency with multi-flow transponders and elastic regenerators in survivable flexible bandwidth virtual optical networks
Author :
Bowen Chen ; Weisheng Xie ; Jie Zhang ; Jue, Jason P. ; Yongli Zhao ; Shanguo Huang ; Wanyi Gu
Author_Institution :
State Key Lab. of Inf. Photonics & Opt. Commun., Beijing Univ. of Posts & Telecommun., Beijing, China
Abstract :
Survivable energy-aware and spectrum-aware approaches (SEA/SSA) are developed to minimize energy and spectrum consumption in flexible bandwidth virtual optical networks. Simulation results show that SEA and SSA can efficiently reduce energy and spectrum consumption, respectively.
Keywords :
energy consumption; optical fibre networks; telecommunication power management; transponders; elastic regenerators; energy efficiency; multi-flow transponders; spectrum consumption; spectrum efficiency; spectrum-aware approaches; survivable energy-aware; survivable flexible bandwidth virtual optical networks; Bandwidth; Energy consumption; Optical network units; Repeaters; Transponders;
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.W2A.27
