“…The utility of such many components still may cause power thirsty. One practical solution that can be adopted to greening IP over WDM network is hybrid grooming (i.e., traffic grooming along with an optical bypass), which has been studied in the recent literatures (Li and Ramamurthy, 2005;Idzikowski et al, 2010;Idzikowski et al, 2011;Hasan et al, 2009;Wu et al, 2009;Hamad and Kamal, 2005;Shen and Tucker, 2009;Xia et al, 2011;Hasan et al, 2010;Monti et al, 2011;Cavdar et al, 2010). This technique multiplexes several small-granularity connection demands into a high-capacity lightpath and then switches these small-granularity connection demands all-optically as a single entity to ensure both the number of TPs and the times of optical-electrical-optical (OEO) conversions reduction.…”