Research Article

The Effectual Spectrum Defragmentation Algorithm with Holding Time Sensitivity in Elastic Optical Network (EON)

Table 3

The modulation format parameters are used in simulations.

Modulation formatSlot capacity (Gb/s)Distance to reach (Km)Bits/symbol

BPSK12.540001
QPSK2520002
8QAM37.510003
16-QAM505004
32-QAM62.52505
64-QAM751256