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Method for traffic grooming, wavelength assignment and spectrum allocation

US8873962B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

NEC Laboratories America, Inc. · US

Inventors

Ankitkumar Patel · Carlsbad, US
Philip Nan Ji · Cranbury, US
Jason P. Jue · Plano, US
Ting Wang · Plainsboro, US
Yoshiaki Aono · Tokyo, JP

Key dates

Filing date	Mar 30, 2012
Grant date	Oct 28, 2014
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Sep 17, 2032

Classification

Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
CPC primaryH04J14/0267
WIPO fieldTelecommunications
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A method includes determining a line rate selection for a flexible optical wavelength-division-multiplexing WDM network, determining a traffic routing in said network, and determining simultaneously a channel routing, wavelength assignment and spectrum allocation in said network based on an auxiliary graph.

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