Algorithm for Energy Efficient Routing, Modulation and Spectrum Assignment

Information and Communication Technology activities consumed 4% of the world energy in 2009, and such consumption will continue to increase due to the traffic growth of the Internet predicted for the next years. Techniques to make the core of the network more energy efficient has been proposed, among them, green routing has been considered a promising technique. This paper proposes a novel Routing, Modulation Level and Spectrum Assignment (RMLSA) algorithm for elastic optical networks that considers the energy consumption of potential routes. Results indicate that this algorithm can save up to 34% energy and produce bandwidth blocking ratio two orders of magnitude lower than existing energy aware RMLSA algorithms.