Abstract
We propose to enable multicast in elastic optical networks that only have multicast-incapable nodes by using member-only flexible relay. Compared with the traditional overlay multi-cast, the proposed scheme can be spectrum- and energy-efficient.
© 2013 Optical Society of America
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