Modulation Format, Core and Spectrum Assignment in a Multicore Optical Link with and without MIMO Receivers
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Rottondi, Cristina; Bosco, Gabriella; Carena, Andrea; Bianco, Andrea
- Source
- 2020 22nd International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON) Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), 2020 22nd International Conference on. :1-4 Jul, 2020
- Subject
- Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Engineered Materials, Dielectrics and Plasmas
Fields, Waves and Electromagnetics
Photonics and Electrooptics
Transportation
MIMO communication
Multicore processing
Transceivers
Modulation
Optical fiber networks
Signal to noise ratio
Crosstalk
multicore fiber
MIMO receivers
- Language
- ISSN
- 2161-2064
We study the modulation format, core and spectrum assignment problem in a multi-core flexi-grid optical link, under the assumption that MIMO receivers can operate on various core subsets and considering distance-adaptive reaches for different modulation formats. We show results obtained following an optimization approach, comparing scenarios with and without the use of MIMO transmission.