Title : 
Virtual optical network provisioning in flexible bandwidth optical networks
         
        
            Author : 
Bowen Chen ; Gangxiang Shen
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Sch. of Electron. & Inf. Eng., Soochow Univ., Suzhou, China
         
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
In order to address the virtual optical network (VON) provisioning problem, VON mapping approaches, which include the power-aware virtual links mapping (PVLM) approach and the power-aware virtual nodes mapping (PVNM) approach, are developed to reduce power consumption for a given set of VONs. Results show that our proposed mapping approach, PVLM, greatly reduces power consumption and saves spectrum resources compared to PVNM for different line rates and mixed line rate in flexible bandwidth optical networks.
         
        
            Keywords : 
directed graphs; optical fibre networks; telecommunication network management; virtual private networks; virtualisation; PVLM approach; PVNM approach; VON mapping approaches; flexible bandwidth optical networks; line rates; mixed line rate; power consumption reduction; power-aware virtual links mapping approach; power-aware virtual nodes mapping approach; spectrum resource saving; virtual optical network provisioning problem; Bandwidth; Distributed databases; Optical fiber networks; Power demand; Repeaters; Transponders; Flexible bandwidth optical networks; Power consumption; Virtual optical network;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Optical Communications and Networks (ICOCN), 2015 14th International Conference on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Nanjing
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/ICOCN.2015.7203768