Crosstalk-aware Routing, Modulation Level, Core and Spectrum Assignment, and Scheduling in SDM-based Elastic Optical Networks

The transmission capacity of traditional single core fibers is reaching its upper bound. Space-division multiplexing (SDM) leveraging multi-core fibers is considered to be a promising solution for this problem. Elastic optical networks (EONs) with Multi-core fibers (MCF) are a kind of SDM-enabled EONs (SDM-EON) providing larger transmission capacity. However, the resource assignment in these networks becomes more complex due to inter-core crosstalk. Another important issue to be considered in future networks is the time domain behavior of incoming traffic which means considering Advance Reservation (AR) requests, in addition to regular Immediate Reservation (IR) requests. In this paper, the problem of routing, modulation level, core and spectrum assignment and scheduling is addressed in an SDM-EON with AR/IR traffic, in which inter-core crosstalk is modeled. This problem is formulated as a Mixed Integer Linear Programming (MILP) and a heuristic algorithm is proposed to solve it.