… -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), …

… In Figure 23, we summarize the aforementioned discussion, illustrating the evolution of
backbone network architectures until the early days of optical networks relying on interconnected …

… Physical layer impairment-aware control plane techniques are studied for dynamic
networking of elastic optical networks (EONs). To this end, performance of three control plane …

… It is based on utilizing the complete low-loss region of optical fibers. Additionally, elastic
optical networks (EON) were proposed to efficiently manage limited resources in optical networks…

… protecting the network against link failures in elastic optical networks (EONs). Network coding
… at the physical layer with other established connections in the network. Backup paths are …

… Some of the main features of an elastic optical network are bandwidth segmentation, bandwidth
aggregation, efficient accommodation of multiple data rates, elastic variation of allocated …

… This leads to the introduction of the elastic optical network (EON) concept [2] for optical
backbone networks. EONs facilitate dynamic adjustment of the channel spacing based on a …

… by considering other characteristics of the elastic optical networks including network
fragmentation which is a major issue in EONs under dynamic network operation. The rest of the …

… Dedicated path protection for elastic optical networks has … today premium network traffic
traveling in fiber links accounts … propose a new design for elastic optical networks with dedicated …

… with various data center applications, elastic optical networks (EONs) [1] … optical networks.
In the conventional fixed-grid wavelength-division multiplexing network, the available optical …