A Greenhouse Gas Emissions-Aware RSA Scheme Combined with Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient in Optical Networks

Energy saving and emission reduction have become important topics of concern in various industries. The reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in elastic optical networks (EONs) is of great importance. This paper proposes a greenhouse gas emissions-aware RSA scheme combined with deep deterministic policy gradient in EONs. The results show that the proposed scheme reduces the GHG emissions and blocking rate.