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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications

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Recent Advances in Elastic Optical Networking

Takafumi TANAKA, Masahiko JINNO

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Many detailed studies ranging from networking to hardware as well as standardization activities over the last few years have advanced the performance of the elastic optical network. Thanks to these intensive works, the elastic optical network has been becoming feasible. This paper reviews the recent advances in the elastic optical network from the aspects of networking technology and hardware design. For the former, we focus on the efficient elastic network design technology related to routing and spectrum assignment (RSA) of elastic optical paths including network optimization or standardization activities, and for the latter, two key enabling technologies are discussed: elastic transponders/regenerators and gridless optical switches. Making closely-dependent networking and hardware technologies work synergistically is the key factor in implementing truly effective elastic optical networks.

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications Vol.E97-B No.7 pp.1252-1258
Publication Date
2014/07/01
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Online ISSN
1745-1345
DOI
10.1587/transcom.E97.B.1252
Type of Manuscript
Special Section INVITED PAPER (Joint Special Section on Opto-electronics and Communications for Future Optical Network)
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Takafumi TANAKA
  NTT Corporation
Masahiko JINNO
  Kagawa University

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