Techniques are disclosed for designing optical transmission systems that efficiently compute cost-optimal configurations under one or more constraints. For example, in one aspect of the present invention, a technique for designing an optical transmission system comprises the following steps/operations....http://www.google.fr/patents/US7693422?utm_source=gb-gplus-shareBrevet US7693422 - Constraint-based design of optical transmission systems
Constraint-based design of optical transmission systems