Flexible joint all photonic and wireless transport networks are a promising backbone
network technological solution to accommodate the various dynamic bandwidth natured …

As data traffic levels surge globally, research is intensifying toward designing high-capacity
Data Transport networks that will maximally utilize photonics-electronics convergence. The …

As the future of networking dives into a new era of connecting every single physical device
into the internet termed Internet of Things (loT), this significantly means a rapid increase in …

Flexible Translucent optical Transport net-works have the capability to provision multiple
data rate demands much more efficiently than the traditional wavelength routed optical …

THE increasing concern for environmental and cost issues has made energy efficiency in
telecom networks an important theme. According to a recent report [1], today's networks are …

Hybrid optical-wireless broadband access network (HOWBAN) takes full advantage of the
high capacity and reliability of the passive optical network and the flexibility, ubiquity of the …

Due to the massive deployment of electrical network devices, Fiber-Wireless (FiWi) access
network has to suffer from the challenge of high energy consumption. With the ever …

The 5th generation of mobile communication system (5G) is expected to change the
communication landscape by 2020. 5G will provide a unified platform for connecting billions …

To accommodate ever-growing mobile data and heterogeneous 5G services, considerable
challenges have emerged to stimulate new design principles on radio access networks …

Automatically switched multilayer IP-over-optical networks offer extensive flexibility in
adapting the network to offered IP/MPLS traffic. Multilayer traffic engineering (MLTE) takes …