Abstract: This paper investigates, through simulations, the tradeoff between energy efficiency (EE) and the overall spectral efficiency (SE) of fiber optic links for a given capacity and a link length ...

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We consider the problem of planning a mixed line rate (MLR) wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) transport optical network. In such networks, different modulation formats are usually employed to ...