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On the Load Normalization in Elastic Optical Networks

In recent years, the elastic optical networks (EONs) emerged as a potential technology to support a great variety of bandwidth-consuming applications in core and metropolitan area networks. Within EONs framework, it is possible to choose the modulation formats and/or bandwidth requirements depending on the network available resources and on the required transmission distances. However, it is very difficult to make fair performance comparisons when different topologies and network scenarios with different bandwidth demands and traffic probabilities are considered. In this paper, we present and discuss a new methodology to solve this problem. The strategy is based on the normalization of the EONs load and numerical examples are used to illustrate its use and effectiveness.