Quality of protection schemes with extended flexibility for improved energy efficiency in transport networks

Author

Vizcaino, J.L. ; Ye, Yunming ; Jimenez, F. ; Duque, R. ; Musumeci, Francesco ; Tornatore, Massimo ; Krummrich, P.M. ; Pattavina, A.

Author_Institution

Huawei Technol. Duesseldorf GmbH, Munich, Germany

fYear

2013

fDate

4-7 March 2013

Firstpage

28

Lastpage

35

Abstract

In this paper we evaluate the potential of Quality of Protection (QoP) schemes to improve the energy efficiency in optical transport networks. Different levels of flexibility, both in the digital and optical domains, are considered for simulations over a nation-wide reference network model. Increasing power savings are achieved as long as the flexibility levels become higher, demonstrating the benefits of QoP deployments to accomplish power consumption reduction.

Keywords

energy conservation; optical fibre networks; power consumption; telecommunication power management; QoP deployment; QoP scheme; digital domain; energy efficiency; flexibility level; nation-wide reference network model; optical domain; optical transport network; power consumption reduction; power saving; quality of protection; Containers; Optical fiber networks; Optical switches; Ports (Computers); Power demand; Transponders; Virtual private networks; ODU-Flex; VLAN; elastic optical networks; energy efficiency; protection schemes; quality of protection;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Design of Reliable Communication Networks (DRCN), 2013 9th International Conference on the

Conference_Location

Budapest

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-0049-7

Type

conf

Filename

6529872