Title : 
Multicast routing and spectrum assignment in Elastic Optical Networks
         
        
            Author : 
Ziyan Yu ; Yongli Zhao ; Jie Zhang ; Xiaosong Yu ; Bowen Chen ; Xuefeng Lin
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
State Key Lab. of Inf. Photonics & Opt. Commun., Beijing Univ. of Posts & Telecommun., Beijing, China
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
Modulation-Enabled node model is introduced in Elastic Optical Networks (EON), which describes the capability of changing Modulation Level (ML) dynamically. A novel multicast RSA algorithm is proposed and validated. Simulation results show its good performance.
         
        
            Keywords : 
multicast communication; optical communication; optical modulation; telecommunication network routing; elastic optical networks; modulation level; modulation-enabled node model; multicast RSA algorithm; multicast routing; spectrum assignment;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Communications and Photonics Conference (ACP), 2012 Asia
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Guangzhou
         
        
        
            Print_ISBN : 
978-1-4673-6274-0