The ever-growing Internet traffic is pushing operators to continuously upgrade the capacity
of their networks by deploying additional energy-consuming network elements, which …

High energy efficiency is expected to become a mandatory design criterion in optical
networks of the future. This paper investigates schemes for enhancing the energy efficiency …

Emerging services and applications demanding high bitrate and stringent quality of service
requirements are pushing telecom operators to upgrade their core networks based on …

The ever-increasing Internet traffic demand introduces new challenges for
telecommunications carriers. Telecom networks will have to be upgraded to cope with the …

Elastic optical networks (EON) have been proposed to meet the network capacity and
dynamicity challenges. Hardware and software resource optimization and re-configurability …

Optical transport networks are being continuously upgraded to cope with the ever increasing
capacity requirements. Improving the energy-and spectral-efficiency while maintaining high …

Word-wide data traffic is continuously surging, triggered mainly by the emergence of Internet-
of-Things (IoT)'s services and Fog-Cloud computing-based applications. This calls for …

Backbone networks are responsible for long-haul data transport serving many clients with a
large volume of data. Since long-haul data transport service must rely on a robust high …

Triggered by emerging services such as high-definition video distribution or social
networking, the IP traffic volume has been exponentially increasing to date. Furthermore, the …

Higher-order modulation formats and spectral super-channels are key to maximizing
spectral efficiency (SE) in next-generation optical transport networks, thereby …