Physical-layer aware routing, modulation level and resource allocation of SDM networks over FM-MCFs

Arpanaei, F.F.ArpanaeiShariati, B.B.ShariatiBeyranvand, H.H.BeyranvandArdalani, N.N.ArdalaniAlavian, A.A.Alavian2022-03-142022-03-142019https://publica.fraunhofer.de/handle/publica/41086510.1049/cp.2019.0790In this paper, we propose a novel physical-layer aware routing, modulation, spatial and spectral resource allocation scheme for few-mode multi-core fibres (FM-MCFs) relying on an analytical formula for calculating OSNR. Additionally, we compare different flavours of the proposed algorithm in terms of their network-wide performance.en621Physical-layer aware routing, modulation level and resource allocation of SDM networks over FM-MCFsconference paper