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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC/NFOEC), 2012 and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference
Conference_Location :
Los Angeles, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-0262-3
