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
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"
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication (ECOC), 2015 European Conference on
DOI :
10.1109/ECOC.2015.7341797
