• DocumentCode
    3701102
  • Title

    On the worthiness of flexible grid in elastic optical networks

  • Author

    Jaume Comellas;Gabriel Junyent

  • Author_Institution
    Optical Communications Group, Signal Theory and Communications Dept., Universitat Politè
  • fYear
    2015
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    Elastic networks are agreed as the right solution to improve optical networks performance. This work discusses about flexible grid usage value, supported by extensive simulations. Elastic connections using fixed grid spectrum allocation can actually lead to better network performance.
  • Keywords
    "Optical fiber networks","Resource management","Frequency selective surfaces","Load modeling","Bandwidth","Proposals","Routing"
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Communication (ECOC), 2015 European Conference on
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ECOC.2015.7341797
  • Filename
    7341797