• DocumentCode
    1590691
  • Title

    From coarse grid to mini-grid to gridless: How much can gridless help contentionless?

  • Author

    Shen, Gangxiang ; Yang, Qi

  • Author_Institution
    Coll. of Electron. & Inf., Soochow Univ., Suzhou, China
  • fYear
    2011
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    We study the benefit of gridless wavelength assignment. An efficient spectrum assignment algorithm is developed. It is found a mini-grid case with a certain grid granularity performs almost the same as the full gridless case.
  • Keywords
    wavelength assignment; grid granularity; gridless wavelength assignment; spectrum assignment algorithm; wavelength mini-grids; Optical devices; Optical receivers; Optical transmitters; Routing; Tuning; Wavelength assignment;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC/NFOEC), 2011 and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference
  • Conference_Location
    Los Angeles, CA
  • ISSN
    pending
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-0213-6
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    5875578