Energy Reduction Strategies in Elastic Optical Networks based on Traffic Aware Distributed GMPLS Control Plane
31 March 2014
The daily, weekly, and yearly traffic variations and traffic growth as well as energy efficiency strategies based on elastic optical networks, sleep mode and grooming strategies represent a good environment for achieving significant energy savings. We adapt the resources assigned for an optical channel by using a GMPLS distributed control plane and enabling a dynamic traffic aware network reconfiguration. The results show that 50% decrease in the average power usage can be achieved.
