The emerging software defined networking (SDN) paradigm separates the data plane from
the control plane and centralizes network control in an SDN controller. Applications interact …

Elastic optical networks (EON) have been proposed to meet the network capacity and
dynamicity challenges. Hardware and software resource optimization and re-configurability …

In today's datacenters (DCs), IT resources virtualization is leveraged to realize Network
Function Virtualization (NFV) over general-purpose servers. Meanwhile, most of the service …

With network virtualization, the physical infrastructure can be partitioned into multiple
parallel virtual networks for sharing purposes. However, different transport technologies or …

Elastic optical networks (EONs) have emerged as a promising technology to accommodate
the high-capacity and dynamic bandwidth demands of next-generation wireless networks …

Optical system management software has been migrating toward software-defined
networking (SDN) methods and interfaces. The increased programmability of SDN promises …

The emerging 5G applications and the connectivity of billions of devices have driven the
investigation of multi-domain heterogeneous converged optical networks. To support …

In order to serve the future high-performance network-based Internet applications, optical
network virtualization is proposed to offer each application type a dedicated virtual optical …

Metropolitan optical networks are undergoing major transformations to continue being able
to provide services that meet the requirements of the applications of the future. The arrival of …

Resource efficiency and survivability are critical concerns in elastic optical networks (EONs)
with virtualization. In this paper, we investigate some important aspects in network …