Title :
OFDM pilot-tone assisted distributed control for SDN-based elastic optical networks
Author :
Weiyang Mo ; Johnson, Stanley ; Mingwei Yang ; Cvijetic, Milorad ; Ahsan, Atiyah ; Wenbo Gao ; Kilper, Daniel ; Bergman, Keren ; Wissinger, John ; JiaFeng Zhu
Author_Institution :
Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
Abstract :
We demonstrate for the first time an SDN-based OFDM elastic optical network with pilot-tone assisted distributed control. Improvement in spectral efficiency and a fast reconfiguration time of 30ms have been achieved in our experiment.
Keywords :
OFDM modulation; distributed control; optical interconnections; software defined networking; OFDM pilot-tone assisted distributed control; SDN-based elastic optical networks; fast reconfiguration time; spectral efficiency; Bandwidth; Bit error rate; High-speed optical techniques; OFDM; Optical fiber networks; Optical transmitters; Phase shift keying; Distributed Control; OFDM; Optical SDN; Pilot-tone;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Interconnects Conference (OI), 2015 IEEE
Conference_Location :
San Diego, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-8178-6
DOI :
10.1109/OIC.2015.7115696
