• DocumentCode
    2019310
  • Title

    Optimized traffic grooming as a way to mitigate the effect of chromatic dispersion in metro/regional WDM networks

  • Author

    Houle, A.C. ; Jaumard, B. ; Solari, Y.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Eng., Sherbrooke Univ., Que., Canada
  • fYear
    2006
  • fDate
    5-10 March 2006
  • Abstract
    We propose optimized traffic grooming to mitigate the effect of chromatic dispersion in WDM networks. We show an example where 34% network cost reduction is achieved in comparison to the use of dispersion compensating fibers.
  • Keywords
    optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre networks; telecommunication traffic; wavelength division multiplexing; chromatic dispersion; metro WDM networks; regional WDM networks; traffic grooming; Bit rate; Chromatic dispersion; Costs; Intelligent networks; Iterative algorithms; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical receivers; Telecommunication traffic; WDM networks;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Fiber Communication Conference, 2006 and the 2006 National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference. OFC 2006
  • Print_ISBN
    1-55752-803-9
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/OFC.2006.215972
  • Filename
    1637003