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Optimal Slot Size under Various Bandwidth Distributions in the Flexible-grid Optical Networks

Networking and Internet Architecture 2021-12-16 v1

Abstract

Flexible grid Optical Networks are efficient mechanism to provide flexibility in the optical spectrum utilization. For such networks, the slot width size as specified by the ITU-T G.694.1 is 12.5 GHz. However, one should question if it is the optimal grid size? In this paper, under different bandwidth distribution scenarios, we review which slot size give appropriate spectrum efficiency. Moreover, we present a study of the slot sizes with varying incoming traffic having some bandwidth requirement under different scenarios.

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@article{arxiv.2112.07831,
  title  = {Optimal Slot Size under Various Bandwidth Distributions in the Flexible-grid Optical Networks},
  author = {Varsha Lohani and Anjali Sharma and Yatindra Nath Singh},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2112.07831},
  year   = {2021}
}