… This paper reviewed the elastic optical networking … benefits in a new era where major line
rates in metro/core optical … et al., “Elastic optical networking: A new dawn for the optical layer?” …

… Section V provides an outlook on the impact of the deployment of nextgeneration
transponders supporting more flexible line formats in flexi-grid optical networks and the new …

… with the software defined optical network (SDON) paradigm, … to such a network as a software
defined elastic optical network (… in both the IP and EON layers is foreseen as the perfect …

… Finally, academy- and industry-driven research on elastic optical networks (EON) has
turned out into a mature enough technology ready to gradually upgrade WDM-based networks. …

… layer network protection. Existing studies on multi-layer survivability for the IP over elastic
optical network … [69] introduced an MILP model for two-layer IP-over-Flexgrid networks and …

… have been introduced to deal with the issues related to network capacity and challenges. …
the prime enablers of elastic optical networks (EONs). Elastic optical networks aim to provide …

… exploit the software defined elastic optical networks (SD-EONs… technology in the core network
where currently predominate … “Elastic optical networking: A new dawn for the optical layer?…

… -speed network design. To promote an efficient and scalable implementation of elastic
optical … This book makes key contributions to the development of elastic optical networks (EONs), …

… long-haul fiber connections. Therefore, we assume elastic optical networks with flexible grid
… both fixed-grid and flexible-grid optical networks, and introduces a unified, software defined …

… media layers in the optical networks. The functional layered structure of a multilayered …
optical network is shown in Figure 1.7. In the case of optical networks we have three layers …