Demonstration of Online Spectrum Defragmentation Enabled by OpenFlow in Software-Defined Elastic Optical Networks
- 1 January 2014
- conference paper
- conference paper
- Published by Optica Publishing Group
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
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