Elastic Networks Thematic Network Results I: Planning and Control of Flex-Grid/SDM

This paper overviews the approach of the Elastic Networks research network to address different issues of planning and control of Flex-Grid/SDM optical networks. Firstly, we present the Net2Plan open-source planning tool capabilities to model Flex-Grid/SDM networks; secondly a PCE-based Transport-SDN controller for packet over flex-grid optical networks is described. Finally results on machine-learning-based QoT classification techniques useful in planning and control tasks are reported.