• DocumentCode
    516005
  • Title

    Designing and engineering metropolitan area transparent optical networks for the provisioning of multicast sessions

  • Author

    Panayiotou, T. ; Ellinas, G. ; Antoniades, N. ; Levine, A.M.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    21-25 March 2010
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    We investigate the problem of designing and engineering metropolitan area optical networks for the provisioning of multicast sessions. The Q-factor for each session is taken into account, aiming at maximizing the admitted number of connections.
  • Keywords
    Q-factor; metropolitan area networks; optical fibre networks; wavelength division multiplexing; Q-factor; metropolitan area transparent optical networks; multicast sessions; optical WDM networking; Crosstalk; Design engineering; Optical design; Optical fiber networks; Optical filters; Optical noise; Optical receivers; Optical transmitters; Physical layer; Urban areas;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Fiber Communication (OFC), collocated National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference, 2010 Conference on (OFC/NFOEC)
  • Conference_Location
    San Diego, CA
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-55752-884-1
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    5465719