Enhancing the Performance of Optical Networks with Route Segmentation and Fiber Augmentation

In this paper, we propose and evaluate a scheme to enhance the performance of optical networks using route segmentation (RS) limited to modulation format maximum range. We have performed this study with an incremental traffic model considering the densely-connected CORONET topology taking the C-band and C+L-bands, with and without the adoption of fiber augmentation (FA). The results show that this strategy can be an interesting way to improve the network performance regarding blocking and bit rates.