Heuristic Chaotic Hurricane-Aided Efficient Power Assignment for Elastic Optical Network

In this paper, we propose a dynamical power allocation (PA) procedure for elastic optical networks (EONs) based on the evolutionary hurricane search optimization (HSO) algorithm with a chaotic logistic map diversification strategy with the purpose of improving the capability to escape from local optima, namely PA-CHSO. The aiming is the dynamical control of the transmitted optical powers according to the variations of each link state due to traffic fluctuations, channel impairments, as well as other channel-power coupling effects. Such realistic EON scenarios are affected mainly by the channel estimation inaccuracy, channel ageing and power fluctuations. The link state is based on the channel estimation and quality of transmission (QoT) parameters obtained from the optical performance monitors (OPMs). Numerical results have demonstrated the effectiveness of the PA-CHSO to dynamically mitigate the power penalty under real measurement conditions with uncertainties and noise, as well as when perturbations in the optical transmit powers are considered.