Title :
The first testbed demonstration of a flexible bandwidth network with a real-time adaptive control plane
Author :
Geisler, David J. ; Proietti, Roberto ; Yin, Yawei ; Scott, Ryan P. ; Cai, Xinran ; Fontaine, Nicolas K. ; Paraschis, Loukas ; Gerstel, Ori ; Yoo, S.J.B.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA
Abstract :
We demonstrate a flexible-bandwidth network testbed with a real-time adaptive control plane that adjusts modulation format and spectrum-positioning to maintain QoS and high spectral efficiency. A low-speed supervisory channel and FPGAs enable real-time impairment detection.
Keywords :
adaptive control; field programmable gate arrays; optical fibre networks; optical modulation; quality of service; FPGA; QoS; flexible bandwidth network; low-speed supervisory channel; optical modulation; real-time adaptive control plane; real-time impairment detection; spectral efficiency; spectrum positioning; Bandwidth; Bit error rate; Optical modulation; Optical noise; Optical transmitters; Signal to noise ratio;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication (ECOC), 2011 37th European Conference and Exhibition on
Conference_Location :
Geneva
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1918-9
