Title :
Quantifying the impact of non-linear impairments on blocking load in elastic optical networks
Author :
Ives, David J. ; Lord, Andrew ; Wright, Paul ; Savory, Seb J.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron. & Electr. Eng., Univ. Coll. London, London, UK
Abstract :
We quantify the effect of transmitter power on the blocking load of an elastic optical network utilizing SNR adapted modulation formats. A fair channel assignment policy is shown to give the best blocking performance.
Keywords :
channel allocation; optical fibre networks; optical modulation; optical transmitters; SNR adapted modulation format; elastic optical networks; fair channel assignment policy; load blocking; nonlinear impairment; signal-to-noise ratio adaptation; transmitter power; Interference; Modulation; Nonlinear optics; Optical fiber networks; Optical transmitters; Signal to noise ratio;
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.Th1E.6
