Enabling service provisioning and quality maintenance in sliceable optical networks

S Spadaro, A Pagès, JB Caro… - Metro and Data Center …, 2021 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Future 5G and beyond services rely on the network slicing concept, in which underlying
network elements are split and/or aggregated to compose a synthetic network infrastructure …

Supporting QoE/QoS-aware end-to-end network slicing in future 5G-enabled optical networks

R Montero, A Pagès, F Agraz… - Metro and Data Center …, 2019 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Network slicing with Quality of Experience/Quality of Service (QoE/QoS) guarantees is seen
as one of the key enablers of future 5G networks. Nevertheless, it poses several challenges …

Network slicing resource allocation and monitoring over multiple clouds and networks

R Martínez, R Vilalta, R Casellas… - 2018 Optical Fiber …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This demo presents an in-operation network slice resource allocator, which is able to
consider networking and cloud infrastructure. Monitoring cloud and network resources …

Transport network slices with security service level agreements

P Alemany, D Ayed, R Vilalta, R Muñoz… - 2020 22nd …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents an initial architecture to manage End-to-End Network Slices which,
once deployed, are associated with Security Service Level Agreement (s) to increase the …

Virtualization of disaggregated optical networks with open data models in support of network slicing

R Casellas, A Giorgetti, R Morro, R Martinez… - Journal of Optical …, 2020 - opg.optica.org
Network slicing has been a major selling point of 5G networks, where a slice is roughly
defined as a self-contained logical network on top of a shared infrastructure tailored for a …

Actuation framework for 5G-enabled network slices with QoE/QoS guarantees

R Montero, F Agraz, A Pagès… - 2019 21st International …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network slicing is identified as the enabling technology for efficient service delivery in future
5G networks. Moreover, a key aspect in 5G network slicing relates to the delivery and …

Orchestrating virtual slices in data centre infrastructures with optical DCN

A Pages, F Agraz, R Montero, G Landi, M Capitani… - Optical Fiber …, 2019 - Elsevier
The emergence of new paradigms and services is pushing the limits of nowadays cloud
infrastructures. It is a fact that current solutions lack in the flexibility and configurability to …

Dynamic programming of network slices in software-defined metro-core optical networks

S Troia, A Cibari, R Alvizu, G Maier - Optical Switching and Networking, 2020 - Elsevier
Nowadays networks are the basis of our communication providing a great number of
services. As a consequence, the traffic is increasing and there is a growing demand for new …

Experimental validation of network slicing management for vertical applications on multimedia real-time communications over a packet/optical network

P Alemany, R Vilalta, JL de la Cruz… - 2019 21st …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents the experimental validation of a vertical application on multimedia real-
time communications use case in which its services are managed by a network slice …

SDN-based band-adaptive quality assurance scheme in support of heterogenous B5G services over sliceable multi-band optical networks

A Pagès, F Agraz, S Spadaro - Optical Switching and Networking, 2023 - Elsevier
The rise of traffic intensive services and applications is pushing the limits of conventional
single band Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) optical networks. As an answer to this …