Network Design with Overlapping Spectrum Allocation in DSCM-Enabled Optical Transport
Paper in proceeding, 2026

This paper investigates a design strategy for bi-directional transmission with overlapping spectrum allocation under back-scattering noise penalties. Results show up to 18 % fewer transceivers and 116 % higher carried traffic compared to non-overlapping allocations.

Digital Subcarrier multiplexing

RMSA

Rayleigh back-scattering

Author

Sai Vikranth Goud Pendem

Chalmers, Electrical Engineering, Communication, Antennas and Optical Networks

Carlos Natalino Da Silva

Chalmers, Electrical Engineering, Communication, Antennas and Optical Networks

Paolo Monti

Chalmers, Electrical Engineering, Communication, Antennas and Optical Networks

Giuseppe Parisi

Nokia

Pablo Torres-Ferrera

Nokia

Antonio Napoli

Nokia

Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC) 2026


9781957171548 (ISBN)

2026 Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition, OFC 2026
Los Angeles, USA,

EMPOWER Converged Optical Wireless Configurations With Cell-Free Technologies For High-Density 6G Networks (EMPOWER - 6G)

European Commission (EC) (101120332), 2024-01-01 -- 2027-12-31.

Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, 2024-01-01 -- 2027-12-31.

Areas of Advance

Information and Communication Technology

Subject Categories (SSIF 2025)

Telecommunications

DOI

10.1364/OFC.2026.W4A.3

ISBN

9781957171548

Related datasets

Metro and ultra-dense topologies [dataset]

URI: https://github.com/saivikranthp/RMSA-single-fiber-Bi-Di-Network-topologies

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