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Elastic Bandwidth Allocation in Flexible OFDM-Based Optical Networks

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This work introduces the Routing, Modulation Level and Spectrum Allocation (RMLSA) problem, as opposed to the typical Routing and Wavelength Assignment (RWA) problem of traditional WDM networks, proves that it is also NP-complete and presents various algorithms to solve it.
Abstract
Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) has recently been proposed as a modulation technique for optical networks, because of its good spectral efficiency, flexibility, and tolerance to impairments. We consider the planning problem of an OFDM optical network, where we are given a traffic matrix that includes the requested transmission rates of the connections to be served. Connections are provisioned for their requested rate by elastically allocating spectrum using a variable number of OFDM subcarriers and choosing an appropriate modulation level, taking into account the transmission distance. We introduce the Routing, Modulation Level and Spectrum Allocation (RMLSA) problem, as opposed to the typical Routing and Wavelength Assignment (RWA) problem of traditional WDM networks, prove that is also NP-complete and present various algorithms to solve it. We start by presenting an optimal ILP RMLSA algorithm that minimizes the spectrum used to serve the traffic matrix, and also present a decomposition method that breaks RMLSA into its two substituent subproblems, namely 1) routing and modulation level and 2) spectrum allocation (RML+SA), and solves them sequentially. We also propose a heuristic algorithm that serves connections one-by-one and use it to solve the planning problem by sequentially serving all the connections in the traffic matrix. In the sequential algorithm, we investigate two policies for defining the order in which connections are considered. We also use a simulated annealing meta-heuristic to obtain even better orderings. We examine the performance of the proposed algorithms through simulation experiments and evaluate the spectrum utilization benefits that can be obtained by utilizing OFDM elastic bandwidth allocation, when compared to a traditional WDM network.

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Routing Code and Spectrum Assignment (RCSA) in Elastic Optical Networks N. Sambo, G. Meloni, F. Cugini, A. D'Errico, L. PotP. Iovanna, and P. Castoldi

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose a code selection in RSA for EONs, by proposing a routing, code, and spec- trum assignment (RCSA) for dynamic set up.
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Routing, modulation, and spectrum assignment in programmable networks based on optical white boxes

TL;DR: This work forms the routing, modulation, and spectrum assignment (RMSA) problem in AoD-based EONs and proposes three RMSA strategies aimed at optimizing a particular combination of these performance indicators, which can achieve remarkable cost savings.
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Dynamic service provisioning in space-division multiplexing elastic optical networks

TL;DR: It is shown that by packing lightpaths toward FSs with the smallest FS indexes, the spectrum-first approach leaves bigger contiguous FS blocks for future requests, and the request blocking probability is minimized.
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On Minimization of the Spectrum Usage in Elastic Optical Networks with Joint Unicast and Anycast Traffic

TL;DR: A Tabu Search algorithm for Routing and Spectrum Allocation with joint unicast and anycast traffic in Elastic Optical Networks (EONs) is proposed and numerical experiments are presented to verify the algorithm and show main features of EONs with any cast traffic.
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Zone based Spectrum Assignment in Elastic Optical Networks: A fairness approach

TL;DR: Results show that the proposed Routing and Spectrum Assignment algorithm achieves desired fairness and reduces blocked bandwidth ratio.
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