Elastic optical networks: a new paradigm for future telecommunications networks
Redes ópticas elásticas: un nuevo paradigma en las futuras redes de telecomunicaciones
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In the last years, traffic on data optical networks has had an exponential growth due to the increasing demand of information by end users. This had lead to saturation of the current deployed networks in terms of capacity. Planning the optical transmission systems of long-reach to work with capacities above 400 Gbps, it will not be possible to keep the spectral fixed-grid of the WDM technology, which currently allows transmitting up to 100 Gbps. The principal limitation is due to the greater spectral bandwidth occupied by the data information and also due to the switching of electronics devices at high frequencies. In this context a new concept known as elastic optical network emerges, which proposes a flexible-grid or gridless, where the spectral width changes according to the bandwidth demand and allows optimizing the spectral efficiency with a minimum separation between adjacent channels. In this paper, we present a comprehensive survey of elastic optical networks, introducing new concepts and describing the challenges and the limitations in these networks. Recent experimental reports show new technological concepts related to the commercials 100-G systems such as: design of multichannels transmitters, gridless Nyquist-WDM and Optical-OFDM, reconfigurable digital coherent receivers, optical dynamic spectrum allocation and advanced modulation formats. Nevertheless, the nonlinearity effects of the optical fiber are a significant limitation that must be researched in detail in this new elastic scenario. Hence, it is shown how the digital signal processing techniques are going to play an important role in order to get high capacity in elastic and reconfigurable networks.
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