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The First Testbed Demonstration of a Flexible Bandwidth Network with a Real-Time Adaptive Control Plane

David J. Geisler, Roberto Proietti, Yawei Yin, Ryan P. Scott, Xinran Cai, Nicolas K. Fontaine, Loukas Paraschis, Ori Gerstel, S. J. Ben Yoo

2011 · 61 citations · 6 references

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Abstract

We demonstrate a flexible-bandwidth network testbed with a real-time adaptive control plane that adjusts modulation format and spectrum-positioning to maintain QoS and high spectral efficiency. A low-speed supervisory channel and FPGAs enable real-time impairment detection.

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