As the Internet traffic grows, the energy efficiency gains more attention as a design factor for
the planning and operation of telecommunication networks. This paper is devoted to the …

Currently, the need for “greener” telecommunication networks is stimulating research efforts
to find new solutions to cope with power consumption and sustainability issues. Exploiting …

An energy efficiency comparison of conventional path protection schemes for fixed-grid
WDM and flexible-grid OFDM-based networks has been carried out. The survivable elastic …

The ever-increasing Internet traffic demand introduces new challenges for
telecommunications carriers. Telecom networks will have to be upgraded to cope with the …

With tremendous growth in bandwidth demand, energy consumption problem in elastic
optical networks (EONs) becomes a hot topic with wide concern. The sliceable bandwidth …

We have compared the total cost of an innovative elastic network with respect to the
conventional WDM ones operating in realistic network scenarios. The results give an insight …

According to the International Telecommunication Union, information and communication
technology (ICT) was emitting 0.83 GtCO2e (gigatons of carbon dioxide equivalent) …

Differentiated Quality of Protection to Improve Energy Efficiency of Survivable Optical
Transport Networks Page 1 OM3A.1.pdf OFC/NFOEC Technical Digest © 2013 OSA …

Optical transport networks are being continuously upgraded to cope with the ever increasing
capacity requirements. Improving the energy-and spectral-efficiency while maintaining high …

The energy efficiency in telecommunication networks is gaining more relevance as the
Internet traffic is growing. The introduction of OFDM and dynamic operation opens new …