{"title":"Defragmentation of transparent Flexible optical WDM (FWDM) networks","authors":"A. Patel, P. Ji, J. Jue, Ting Wang","doi":"10.1364/OFC.2011.OTUI8","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"We introduce the network defragmentation problem for FWDM networks, formulate it, and propose heuristics. The network defragmentation process consolidates the available spectrum significantly while minimizing the number of interrupted connections.","PeriodicalId":6373,"journal":{"name":"2011 Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2011-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"183","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2011 Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1364/OFC.2011.OTUI8","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
We introduce the network defragmentation problem for FWDM networks, formulate it, and propose heuristics. The network defragmentation process consolidates the available spectrum significantly while minimizing the number of interrupted connections.