On the spectrum-efficiency of bandwidth-variable optical OFDM transport networks

We investigated the high spectrum efficiency property of the bandwidth-variable optical OFDM (BV-OOFDM) transport networks. In contrast to mixed-line-rate (MLR) networks, BV-OOFDM enables flexible allocation and efficient utilization of the spectral resource.

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