• DocumentCode
    552110
  • Title

    Traffic grooming in flexible optical WDM (FWDM) networks

  • Author

    Patel, Ankitkumar N. ; Ji, Philip N. ; Jue, Jason P. ; Wang, Ting

  • Author_Institution
    Univ. of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX, USA
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    4-8 July 2011
  • Firstpage
    405
  • Lastpage
    406
  • Abstract
    We propose an algorithm for the traffic grooming, routing, wavelength assignment, and spectrum allocation problem in FWDM networks for the first time. We show that traffic grooming improves spectral efficiency of FWDM networks.
  • Keywords
    frequency allocation; optical fibre networks; telecommunication network routing; telecommunication traffic; wavelength assignment; wavelength division multiplexing; FWDM networks; flexible optical WDM network; optical routing; spectral efficiency; spectrum allocation problem; traffic grooming; wavelength assignment; Network topology; Optical modulation;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Opto-Electronics and Communications Conference (OECC), 2011 16th
  • Conference_Location
    Kaohsiung
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-61284-288-2
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-986-02-8974-9
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6015187