Minimal virtualized-elastic-regenerator placement and least congestion resources assignment for translucent elastic optical networks

A virtualized-elastic-regenerator (VER) is a promising solution for efficiently regenerating various superchannels in elastic optical networks. We propose an effective heuristic for calculating minimal VER placement, routing, and least congestion resources assignment.

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