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   <dc:title>Global concurrent optimization: advantages and opportunities in flexgrid-based networks</dc:title>
   <dc:creator>Castro Casales, Alberto</dc:creator>
   <dc:creator>Velasco Esteban, Luis Domingo</dc:creator>
   <dc:creator>Comellas Colomé, Jaume</dc:creator>
   <dc:creator>Junyent Giralt, Gabriel</dc:creator>
   <dc:contributor>Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Departament d'Arquitectura de Computadors</dc:contributor>
   <dc:contributor>Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Departament de Teoria del Senyal i Comunicacions</dc:contributor>
   <dc:contributor>Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. GCO - Grup de Comunicacions Òptiques</dc:contributor>
   <dc:subject>Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Enginyeria de la telecomunicació::Telecomunicació òptica</dc:subject>
   <dc:subject>Optical communications</dc:subject>
   <dc:subject>Dynamic Bulk Restoration</dc:subject>
   <dc:subject>Flexgrid Optical Networks</dc:subject>
   <dc:subject>Spectrum defragmentation</dc:subject>
   <dc:subject>Comunicacions òptiques</dc:subject>
   <dc:description>In future flexgrid core networks the amount of lightpaths might increase significantly as a consequence of the finer granularity in the use of the optical spectrum. Different spectrum bandwidth can be allocated to each lightpath as a function of, among others, the bitrate amount to be conveyed and the modulation format used. As result, spectrum fragmentation might appear leading to non-optimal resource utilization. In addition, a failure in a fibre link could trigger hundreds, or even thousands, of path computations requests to a centralized Path Computation Element (PCE). Latter examples can benefit from using the recently standardized Global Concurrent Optimization (GCO), which enhances PCE's computation capabilities. In this paper we present two opportunities to take advantage of the PCE+GCO architecture: spectrum defragmentation and restoration.</dc:description>
   <dc:description>Peer Reviewed</dc:description>
   <dc:description>Postprint (published version)</dc:description>
   <dc:date>2013</dc:date>
   <dc:type>Conference report</dc:type>
   <dc:identifier>Castro, A., Velasco, L., Comellas, J., Junyent, G. Global concurrent optimization: advantages and opportunities in flexgrid-based networks. A: International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks. "2013 15th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON 2013): Cartagena, Spain, June 23-27, 2013". Cartagena: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2013, p. Mo.C4.1-1-Mo.C4.1-4.</dc:identifier>
   <dc:identifier>978-147990682-6</dc:identifier>
   <dc:identifier>https://hdl.handle.net/2117/104481</dc:identifier>
   <dc:identifier>10.1109/ICTON.2013.6602714</dc:identifier>
   <dc:language>eng</dc:language>
   <dc:rights>Restricted access - publisher's policy</dc:rights>
   <dc:format>application/pdf</dc:format>
   <dc:publisher>Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)</dc:publisher>
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