Abstract
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 network with SP scheme was found to offer the best energy efficiency per GHz at any traffic load value.
© 2012 Optical Society of America
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