Title :
Dimensioning of elastic optical packet switched metro rings
Author :
Pointurier, Yvan ; Antona, Jean-Christophe
Author_Institution :
Bell Labs., Alcatel-Lucent, Nozay, France
Abstract :
We propose a dimensioning algorithm for all-optical packet rings equipped with elastic or fixed mixed line rate (fMLR) transponders (TRX) and show that elastic TRX can reduce network cost by up to 40% with respect to fMLR networks.
Keywords :
optical switches; transponders; all-optical packet rings; elastic TRX; elastic optical packet switched metro ring dimensioning; fMLR networks; fMLR transponders; fixed mixed line rate transponders; Gravity; Modulation; Optical fiber networks; Optical packet switching; Optical receivers; Optical transmitters; Transponders;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference (OFC/NFOEC), 2013
Conference_Location :
Anaheim, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-0457-0
