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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 12, 2016
Filed:
Feb. 19, 2015
Alcatel-lucent Usa Inc., Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Muralidharan Kodialam, Marlboro, NJ (US);
Rene-Jean Essiambre, Red Bank, NJ (US);
Paul Claisse, Skillman, NJ (US);
Tirunell V. Lakshman, Marlboro, NJ (US);
Zizhong Cao, Miller Place, NY (US);
Alcatel Lucent, Boulogne-Billancourt, FR;
Abstract
We disclose a signal-routing method directed at improving the throughput of an optical network by taking into account the fiber nonlinearity in the process of solving a joint signal-routing and power-control problem for the optical network. Based on the obtained solution, a network controller may set the signal-routing configurations of the various network nodes and the optical gains of the various optical amplifiers to enable the optical network to carry the traffic in a manner that results in a higher throughput than that achievable with the use of conventional signal-routing and/or power-control methods.