Physical layer impairment (PLI)-aware routing and wavelength assignment (RWA) in dispersion-managed DWDM 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:
Fischer, Thomas (Nokia Siemens Networks GmbH & Co. KG, Otto-Hahn-Ring 6, 81730 Mnchen)

Abstract:
A PLI-aware RWA algorithm with unique workflow is proposed for provisioning and rerouting in GMPLSenabled transparent DWDM networks. Although fiber nonlinearities in dispersion-managed systems are captured, standard performance assessment is outpaced by orders of magnitude.