JOURNAL ARTICLE

Demonstration of Online Spectrum Defragmentation Enabled by OpenFlow in Software-Defined Elastic Optical Networks

Abstract

We propose and experimentally demonstrate a control-plane framework to realize online spectrum defragmentation (DF) in software-defined elastic optical networks. Experimental results show that the spectrum DF enabled by OpenFlow reduces the blocking probability effectively.

Keywords:
OpenFlow Blocking (statistics) Computer science Software-defined networking Software Spectrum (functional analysis) Computer network Network topology Forwarding plane Physics Operating system

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Citation History

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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