[ThE3] Machine Learning and Data Analytics

[ThE3-3] Service Provisioning based on Association Rules Mining between Crosstalk and Fragmentization in Multi-core Elastic Optical Networks

Best Student Paper Award

〇Qiuyan Yao, Hui Yang, Ao Yu, Jie Zhang, Yuefeng Ji (Beijing Univ. of Posts and Telecommunications, China)

Keywords:service provisioning, association rules mining, crosstalk, spectrum fragments, multi-core optical networks

We propose a service provisioning mechanism by mining association rules between crosstalk and spectrum fragmentation in elastic optical networks with multi-core fibers. Results indicate our scheme can reduce fragments, decrease blocking, and improve resource utilization.