A Survey on OFDM-Based Elastic Core Optical Networking

• Published in: IEEE Communications surveys and tutorials Vol. 15; no. 1; pp. 65 - 87
• Main Authors: Guoying Zhang, De Leenheer, M., Morea, A., Mukherjee, B.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 01.01.2013
• Subjects: Bandwidth-Variable Wavelength Cross-Connect (BV-WXC); Data Rate/Bandwidth-Variable Transponder; Elastic Optical Network; Network Virtualization; OFDM; Optical imaging; Optical Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing (O-OFDM); Optical receivers; Optical transmitters; Passive optical networks; Routing and Spectrum Allocation (RSA); Signal detection; Survivability; Traffic Grooming

Orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) is a modulation technology that has been widely adopted in many new and emerging broadband wireless and wireline communication systems. Due to its capability to transmit a high-speed data stream using multiple spectral-overlapped lower-speed subcarri...