Data Analytics for Improving Performance of Spectrally-Spatially Flexible Optical Networks

Optimization of lightpath provisioning in a spectrally-spatially flexible optical network (SS-FON) is challenging due to many difficult constraints that exist in optical networks and because of limited amounts of various transmission resources (such as spectrum, spatial modes, transceivers, regeneration points). Previously demonstrated approaches usually apply fixed provisioning policies (e.g., heuristics for routing, space and spectrum...