This paper introduces OCLDN, an agile, programmable, and scalable optical cloud
distribution network, which exploits content distribution networks to deliver killer cloud and …

Emerging research trends in smart healthcare, smart manufacturing, and Industrial Internet-
of-Things (IIoT) applications are based on 5G services, which can achieve ultra-reliable and …

Considering the virtual network infrastructure as a service, optical network virtualization can
facilitate the physical infrastructure sharing among different clients and applications that …

In the upcoming 5G networks and following the emerging software-defined
networking/network function virtualization (SDN/NFV) paradigm, demanded services will be …

Today's traditional, hierarchical, full-electronic data centers cannot guarantee quality of
service (QoS) for latency-sensitive applications or carrier-grade multitenancy. We propose …

Optical access networks are envisioned to become increasingly complex as they support
more and more diverse and immersive services, each with a different capacity, latency, and …

Every day, customers across the globe connect to cloud service provider servers with
requests for diverse types of data, requiring instantaneous response times and seamless …

Featured by the advantages of high capacity, long transmission distance, and low energy
consumption, optical network has been deployed widely as the most important infrastructure …

Rapidly increasing traffic demands of current residential and business applications and
newly evolving services require access network solutions that can offer dramatically higher …

To keep pace with the tremendous bandwidth growth in cloud networking, web-scale
providers, such as Microsoft, have been quick to adopt elastic features of modern optical …