JOURNAL ARTICLE

A Hitless Defragmentation Method for Self-optimizing Flexible Grid Optical Networks

Abstract

We present an auto-defragmentation method to continuously 'defrag' flexible grid optical networks without service disruption. Signal dependency map is introduced to identify candidate signals to be retuned and their retune sequence. Simulation results show up to 76% reduction in request blocking and 38% reduction in the number of stranded slots.

Keywords:
Computer science Grid Parallel computing Distributed computing Mathematics

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Topics

Advanced Optical Network Technologies
Physical Sciences →  Engineering →  Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Optical Network Technologies
Physical Sciences →  Engineering →  Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Advanced Photonic Communication Systems
Physical Sciences →  Engineering →  Electrical and Electronic Engineering
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