supported in part by the National "973" Program of China under Grant No. 2009CB326203
Signal degradation due to physical impairments may result in unacceptable bit-error rates of received signals at the destination. Based on earlier work, we study the impairment-aware quality of service (QoS) provisi...
supported in part by the National "863" Program of China (Nos. 2009AA01z255 and 2009AA01A345);the National "973" Program of China (No.2007CB310705);the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 60932004);the Specialized Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education of China (No. 200800130001)
An optical signal-to-noise ratio (OSNR) aware lightpath provisioning mechanism (OSNR-LPM) is proposed for distributed optical networks. This OSNR-LPM takes the OSNR value of the lightwave along the lightpath into ...