Scale-Based Slicer Placement in Elastic Optical Networks

Abstract

This paper proposes a scale-based slicer placement scheme to reduce bandwidth blocking rate (BBR) in elastic optical networks (EONs). In EONs, a slicing-stitching technology is adopted to overcome a spectrum slot allocation rule that the spectrum slots of the same request must be consecutive on the same link. This technology is done by slicers to split a spectrum band into multiple sub-spectrum components. In EONs with limited slicers, determining equally the number of slicers on every node may not result in a low BBR since the traffic volume on each node is not the same. We investigate and determine the number of slicers needed for each node as a scale-based policy. The simulation results show that our scheme achieves a BBR reduction of 91%, compared to the conventional scheme.