Title :
Design of elastic optical nodes based on subsystem flexibility measurement and other figures of merit
Author :
Adaranijo Peters;Emilio Hugues-Salas;Georgios Zervas;Dimitra Simeonidou
Author_Institution :
High Performance Network group, University of Bristol, UK
Abstract :
The flexibility and trade-offs of node subsystems are evaluated for the first time under different design configurations. The proposed method presents a direct approach to identify the impact of various key subsystems figures of merit for add/drop networks and EONs.
Keywords :
"Optical switches","Optical fibers","Optical transmitters","Optical fiber networks","Optical variables measurement","Optical design"
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication (ECOC), 2015 European Conference on
DOI :
10.1109/ECOC.2015.7342001