Abstract

Emerging services and applications demanding high bitrate and stringent quality of service requirements are pushing telecom operators to upgrade their core networks based on wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) to a more flexible technology for the more dynamic and variable traffic that is expected to be conveyed. Finally, academy- and industry-driven research on elastic optical networks (EON) has turned out into a mature enough technology ready to gradually upgrade WDM-based networks. Among others, key EON features include flexible spectrum allocation, connections beyond 100 Gb/s, advanced modulation formats, and elasticity against time-varying traffic. As a consequence of the variety of features involved, network design and algorithms for EONs are remarkably more complex than those for WDM networks. However, new opportunities for network operators to reduce costs arise by exploiting those features; in fact, the classical network life cycle based on fixed periodical planning cycles needs to be adapted to greatly reduce overprovisioning by applying reoptimization techniques to reconfigure the network while it is in operation and to efficiently manage new services, such as datacenter interconnection that will require provisioning multicast connections and elastic spectrum allocation for time-varying traffic. This paper reviews and extends mathematical models and algorithms to solve optimization problems related to the design, operation, and reoptimization of EONs. In addition, two use cases are presented as illustrative examples on how the network life cycle needs to be extended with in-operation planning and data analytics thus adding cognition to the network.

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