Soft-Reservation based Resource Allocation in Optical Networks Secured by Quantum Key Distribution (QKD)
Xian Ning, Yongli Zhao, Xiaosong Yu, Yuan Cao, Qinghai Ou, Zhu Liu, Xiao Liao, Jie Zhang · Asia Communications and Photonics Conference · 2017
A dynamic routing, wavelength and time-slot allocation algorithm based on soft-reservation is proposed to construct different channels in optical networks secured by QKD. Simulation shows the proposed algorithm can achieve high adaptability to security requirements.