• DocumentCode
    1796416
  • Title

    Blocking performances for fixed/flexible-grid and sub-band conversion in optical networks

  • Author

    Yamei Gu ; Xin Yuan ; Shanhong You

  • Author_Institution
    Sch. of Electron. & Inf. Eng., Soochow Univ., Suzhou, China
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    13-15 Oct. 2014
  • Firstpage
    116
  • Lastpage
    120
  • Abstract
    With the rapid growth of data rate, the optical network is evolving from fixed-grid to flexible-grid to provide spectrum-efficient and scalable transport of 100Gb/s services and beyond. In this paper, we analyzed the blocking performances for fixed/flexible-grid and sub-band conversion in optical networks. Flexible-grid and sub-band conversion demonstrated the good performances on traffic blocking and spectral utilization. Moreover, wavelength converter plays a key role in improving the blocking performances of fixed/flexible-grid networks.
  • Keywords
    optical fibre networks; optical wavelength conversion; telecommunication traffic; blocking performances; fixed-grid networks; flexible-grid networks; optical networks; spectral utilization; sub-band conversion; traffic blocking; wavelength converter; Bandwidth; Channel allocation; Optical fiber networks; Optical wavelength conversion; Resource management; Telecommunication traffic; blocking performance; fixed-grid; flexible-grid; sub-band conversion; wavelength converter;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Communications in China (ICCC), 2014 IEEE/CIC International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Shanghai
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICCChina.2014.7008254
  • Filename
    7008254