FU Xiao-dong, CHEN Bo-wen, LEI Yu. An Energy-Optimized Mixed-Line-Rate Dedicated Protection Approach in Software-Defined Flexible Bandwidth Optical Networks. [J]. (2):6-10(2019)
In Software-Defined Flexible Bandwidth Optical Networks(SD-FBONs)
the energy-efficiency problems have to be solved in order to meet the requirements of the green and energy-saving optical networks. In this paper
considering the programmable characteristics of optical switching nodes
the service architecture of SD-FBONs is flexibly operated by the network center controller and application layer controller based on the extended OpenFlow protocol. An Energy-Optimized Mixed-Line-Rate Dedicated Protection Approach(EO-MLR-DPA) is proposed to reduce the energy consumption
and the Traditional Dedicated Protection Approach(T-DPA) is introduced for comparison in SD-FBONs. The simulation results show that
compared with T-DPA
the proposed EO-MLR-DPA can effectively reduce the power consumption and optimize the configuration of the optical transponder and optical regenerator under different line rates and modulation formats in SD-FBONs.