Title :
Enhanced inherent survivability to link failures at low link margin in a flexgrid optical network
Author :
Abhijit Mitra;Andrew Lord;Subrat Kar;Paul Wright
Author_Institution :
British Telecom, IIT Delhi, India
Abstract :
We investigate Elastic Optical Networks under fiber failures. In the low Link Margin regime, up to 43% of affected demands are accommodated in existing higher QAM lightpaths.
Keywords :
"Optical fiber networks","Bandwidth","Signal to noise ratio","Optical noise","Telecommunications","Maintenance engineering","Quadrature amplitude modulation"
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication (ECOC), 2015 European Conference on
DOI :
10.1109/ECOC.2015.7341802
