Title :
Demonstration of online spectrum defragmentation enabled by OpenFlow in software-defined elastic optical networks
Author :
Shoujiang Ma ; Cen Chen ; Shengru Li ; Mingyang Zhang ; Suoheng Li ; Yan Shao ; Zuqing Zhu ; Lei Liu ; Yoo, S.J.B.
Author_Institution :
Univ. of Sci. & Technol. of China, Hefei, China
Abstract :
We propose and experimentally demonstrate a control-plane framework to realize online spectrum defragmentation (DF) in software-defined elastic optical networks. Experimental results show that the spectrum DF enabled by OpenFlow reduces the blocking probability effectively.
Keywords :
optical communication; probability; telecommunication control; DF; OpenFlow; blocking probability; control-plane framework; online spectrum defragmentation; software-defined elastic optical networks; Adaptive optics; Bandwidth; Computer architecture; Databases; Erbium; Optical fiber networks; Routing;
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
