Flexible-Client: The Missing Piece Towards Transport Software-Defined Networks
Ankitkumar N. Patel, Konstantinos Kanonakis, Philip Nan Ji, Junqiang Hu, Ting Wang · Optical Fiber Communication Conference · 2014
We introduce architectures to enable flexible-client functionality in software-defined transport networks for the first time, and propose an effective algorithm to provision time-varying traffic. Transponders with flexible-client interfaces improve spectral, energy, and management efficiencies.