RT info:eu-repo/semantics/conferenceObject T1 An ILP Formulation for Partially Upgrading Elastic Optical Networks to Multi-Band A1 Hosseini, Soheil A1 Miguel Jiménez, Ignacio de A1 Durán Barroso, Ramón José A1 González de Dios, Óscar A1 Merayo Álvarez, Noemí A1 Aguado Manzano, Juan Carlos A1 Echeverry, Edward A1 Fernández Reguero, Patricia A1 Lorenzo Toledo, Rubén Mateo A1 Abril Domingo, Evaristo José K1 Elastic optical networks K1 Multi-band K1 Fiber migration K1 Integer linear programming K1 Network simulation AB We propose an integer linear programming (ILP) formulation to perform a partial upgrade of conventional elastic optical networks to multi-band optical networks in which both the C-band and the L-band are activated. Under the assumption that, in dynamic network operation, the optical connections are established following precomputed paths, the formulation determines which (limited) set of fibers should be upgraded to support multi-band transmission with the objective of maximizing the number of precomputed paths that can benefit from such upgrade. We investigate the network performance in terms of bandwidth blocking ratio as a function of the traffic load and the number of links upgraded from the C-band to the C+L bands. Moving towards other spectral bands provides more spectral resources, which leads to reductions in blocking probability. However, in the case of not having enough financial resources to achieve a fully upgraded network, the selection of fibers for migration must be done efficiently, for which the proposed ILP formulation is useful. The performance of the link upgrades provided by the ILP formulation is compared with a heuristic proposed in a previous work, by analyzing the reduction on the blocking probability obtained. PB Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) YR 2023 FD 2023 LK https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/62304 UL https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/62304 LA spa NO 2023 International Conference on Optical Network Design and Modeling (ONDM), Coimbra, Portugal, 2023, pp. 1-5. NO Producción Científica DS UVaDOC RD 08-jun-2024