Crosstalk and Fragmentation-aware Algorithm for Space-Division Multiplexing Elastic Optical Networks

Optical fiber is the most adopted communication technology on the Internet backbone. However, it is expected that the transmission capacity of the existing optical fiber will reach its physical limitation due to the growing increase of bandwidth demand. The Space-Division Multiplexing Elastic Optical Networks has shown to be a quite promising technology to solve this problem due to its capacity expansion and requests adjustment properties. This paper proposes an RMSCA algorithm for SDM-EONs, focusing on reducing the blocking ratio and dealing with crosstalk and fragmentation. Results indicate that our algorithm provides 10% of reducing of blocking, yet it produces better performance compared to the performance of existing algorithms.