Optical control planes such as automatically switched optical networks or generalized
multiprotocol label switching (GMPLS) have been viewed as one key enabling technology …

With the tremendous introduction of internet protocol (IP) applications, the quality-of-service
(QoS) becomes more and more an emergent issue. Concrete solutions can be adopted …

QoS improvement through Multi-layer Traffic Engineering in Capacity-constrained Intelligent
Optical Networks Page 1 QoS improvement through Multi-layer Traffic Engineering in …

In an increasingly competitive market environment with smaller product offer differentiation,
a continuous maximization of efficiency, while guarantying the quality of the provided …

Progress in network technologies and protocols is paving the road towards flexible optical
transport networks, in which dynamic leasable circuits could be set up and released on a …

Sažetak In this paper an agent-based framework for the automation of Service Level
Agreement (SLA) management lifecycle is presented. SLAs are the cornerstone of this …

Dynamic service provisioning is expected to a key feature of next-generation optical
networks. The increasing use of wavelength multiplexing (WDM) infrastructures due to …

Network architectures whose resources are open to control by user applications require the
design of a service platform that performs resource virtualization and service abstraction …

We are witnessing an ever-increasing demand for cloud computing services, IoT, M2M
communications and advanced telecom applications. In addition, other applications like …