With the rapid development of emerging services in 5G and beyond scenario, ultra-large
capacity transmission has become a rigid demand for core optical networks, leaving a …

In this work, efficient routing, spectrum, and core allocation (RSCA) techniques are proposed
for spatial division multiplexed (SDM) elastic optical networks (EONs) utilizing multicore …

Space division multiplexing (SDM), as a potential means of enhancing the capacity of optical
transmission systems, has attracted widespread attention. However, the adoption of SDM …

The enormous growth in the number of smartphones, internet usage, and internet of things
applications require high data‐rate transport platforms. Therefore, spectrally and spatially …

In the past few decades, optical transport networks (OTNs) have undergone significant
evolution, from the earliest wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) OTNs to elastic optical …

The increasing amount of traffic being aggregated to the terrestrial backbone optical
networks (BONs) from the metro/access communication networks has caused capacity …

In Elastic Optical Networks with Space-Division Multiplexing (EON-SDM), dynamic allocation
and de-allocation can generate spectrum fragmentation, increasing the blocking probability …

In multicore fiber (MCF) equipped spectrally-spatially flexible optical networks (SS-FONs),
the intercore crosstalk (XT) affects quality of transmission (QoT) of lightpaths if it exceeds …

The introduction of futuristic and challenging use cases of 5G and 6G communications will
demand strict requirements in terms of high bandwidth and low latency. Optical backbone …

A novel routing, core and spectrum assignment (RCSA) algorithm based on reinforcement
learning is proposed for space division multiplexing elastic optical networks (SDM-EONs) …