Virtualized Routing and Frequency Allocation Functions in Elastic Optical Networks

Conference: ECOC 2016 - 42nd European Conference on Optical Communication
09/18/2016 - 09/22/2016 at Düsseldorf, Deutschland

Proceedings: ECOC 2016

Pages: 3Language: englishTyp: PDF

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Authors:
Pham Van, Quan (Nokia Bell Labs, Route de Villejust, 91620 Nozay, France & Telecom SudParis, 91120, Palaiseau, France)
Verchere, Dominique; Layec, Patricia; Dupas, Arnaud; Bigo, Sebastien (Nokia Bell Labs, Route de Villejust, 91620 Nozay, France)
Khebbache, Selma; Zeghlache, Djamal (Telecom SudParis, 91120, Palaiseau, France)

Abstract:
Optical channels are configured according to changing traffic demands through virtualized routing and frequency allocation (RFA) functions executed as SDN applications. Two algorithms are evaluated to position the trade-off between allocated DWDM frequency grid ranges and execution time.