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 …

Network operators must continuously scale the capacity of their optical backbone networks
to keep apace with the proliferation of bandwidth-intensive applications. Today's optical …

Network visualization in Elastic Optical Networks (EONs) utilizes the flexible spectral
resources to map Virtual Networks (VN) requests onto the physical substrate network. The …

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

Infrastructure as a service and network virtualization facilitates the network provider/operator
to lease out the resources among different stakeholders, hence promoting the sharing of …

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

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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 …

This paper proposes a survivable virtual network embedding model over elastic optical
networks considering shared protection against any single substrate node or link failure. A …