RWA for Mitigating Power Excursion Effects in EDFA-based all-Optical Metro Networks

Conference: ECOC 2007 - 33rd European Conference and Exhibition of Optical Communication
09/16/2007 - 09/20/2007 at Berlin, Germany

Proceedings: ECOC 2007

Pages: 2Language: englishTyp: PDF

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Authors:
Cugini, F.; Ghelfi, P.; Bogoni, A. (CNIT, Pisa, Italy)
Valcarenghi, L.; Castoldi, P. (Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy)
Muro, R. Di; Nayar, B. (Ericsson Ltd., New Century Park, Coventry CV3 1 JG, UK)

Abstract:
Two novel Routing and Wavelength Assignment (RWA) policies are proposed for all-optical metro mesh networks. These RWA policies contribute to mitigate the excessive power excursions in network links without requiring additional network resources.