The emerging 5G applications and the connectivity of billions of devices have driven the
investigation of multi-domain heterogeneous converged optical networks. To support …

Optical network virtualization has recently been studied extensively as a promising solution
to share physical infrastructure resources among different users and applications. Virtual …

Network slicing has been a major selling point of 5G networks, where a slice is roughly
defined as a self-contained logical network on top of a shared infrastructure tailored for a …

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Network virtualization (NV) is considered to be a promising solution to address the
ossification of the current Internet infrastructure. With the recent advancements in optical …

Elastic Optical Network (EON) virtualization has recently emerged as an enabling
technology for 5G network slicing. A fundamental problem in EON slicing (known as Virtual …

The proliferation of Internet of Things (IoT) applications has led to the interconnection of
multiaccess edge computing (MEC) systems through metro optical networks. To cater to …

An important challenge in network virtualization is the process of assigning physical
resources to virtual network requests, where virtual node resources represent the demands …

Recent innovations in Network Virtualization and Elastic Optical Networks (EONs) enable
flexible deployment of optical networks as a service. However, one open challenge is how to …

Network virtualization provides means for efficient management of network resources by
embedding multiple virtual networks (VNs) to share efficiently the same substrate network …