• DocumentCode
    600524
  • Title

    Routing and spectrum assignment by means of ant colony optimization in flexible bandwidth networks

  • Author

    Ying Wang ; Jie Zhang ; Yongli Zhao ; Jingjing Wang ; Wanyi Gu

  • Author_Institution
    State Key Lab. of Inf. Photonics & Opt. Commun., Beijing Univ. of Posts & Telecom, Beijing, China
  • fYear
    2012
  • fDate
    4-8 March 2012
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    We propose a dynamic ACO-based routing and spectrum assignment algorithm in the flexible bandwidth optical networks. Simulation results show that the novel strategy achieves a lower blocking probability with high adaptability to the traffic rate variation.
  • Keywords
    ant colony optimisation; optical fibre networks; telecommunication network routing; ant colony optimization; blocking probability; dynamic ACO-based routing-spectrum assignment algorithm; flexible-bandwidth optical networks; traffic rate variation; Bandwidth; Frequency selective surfaces; Heuristic algorithms; Optical fiber networks; Optical frequency conversion; Routing;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC/NFOEC), 2012 and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference
  • Conference_Location
    Los Angeles, CA
  • ISSN
    pending
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-0262-3
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6476347