Title :
From coarse grid to mini-grid to gridless: How much can gridless help contentionless?
Author :
Shen, Gangxiang ; Yang, Qi
Author_Institution :
Coll. of Electron. & Inf., Soochow Univ., Suzhou, China
Abstract :
We study the benefit of gridless wavelength assignment. An efficient spectrum assignment algorithm is developed. It is found a mini-grid case with a certain grid granularity performs almost the same as the full gridless case.
Keywords :
wavelength assignment; grid granularity; gridless wavelength assignment; spectrum assignment algorithm; wavelength mini-grids; Optical devices; Optical receivers; Optical transmitters; Routing; Tuning; Wavelength assignment;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC/NFOEC), 2011 and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference
Conference_Location :
Los Angeles, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-0213-6
