The long-reach passive optical network (LR-PON) is receiving significant research attention
due to its potential in delivering future bandwidth intensive services to a significantly higher …

In IP-over-WDM networks, protection can be offered at the optical layer or at the IP layer.
Today, it is well acknowledged that synergies need to be developed between the IP and …

Survivability is the key topic in the networks. This paper studies the shared-protection based
on SRLG, and presents two algorithms. The effectiveness of the proposed algorithms is …

Shared risk link group (SRLG) has been widely recognized as an important concept in
survivable optical networks. The issues of avoiding the so-called" traps" in the path …

Core network survivability affects the reliability performance of telecommunication networks
and remains one of the most important network design considerations. This paper critically …

This paper studies quantitatively the benefit of startup-failure-driven backup path
reprovisioning in terms of connection availability in shared-path-protected optical networks …

One of the visions of fifth-generation fixed networks (F5G) is to provide a guaranteed reliable
experience (GRE). Optical transport networks (OTNs) represent a primary candidate …

Several protection schemes have been proposed for wavelength division multiplexed
passive optical networks (WDM-PONs). However, these existing schemes only work under …

Passive optical networks (PONs) are considered as a promising solution for broadband
access networks. Due to the growing demand for reliable service delivery, fault management …

Integration of wireless and optical access technologies for the Internet access seems as a
promising solution to reduce the cost of deploying fiber to the premises. Wireless Optical …