Abstract
We show that blocking in dynamic networks of colorless, non-directional ROADMs is tolerant to intra-node contention when contention-aware routing/wavelength assignment (RWA) algorithms are used. An optional client-side cross-connect enables low blocking with simpler RWA variants.
© 2011 Optical Society of America
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