Spectral defragmentation in elastic optical path networks using independent sets

Spectral fragmentation in elastic optical networks decreases the spectral efficiency and increases the request blocking. We propose a novel auxiliary graph model and spectral defragmentation technique using independent sets to efficiently consolidate the spectrum allocation.

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