The unprecedented growth of the global Internet traffic, coupled with the large spatio-
temporal fluctuations that create, to some extent, predictable tidal traffic conditions, are …

To improve the network scalability, a large elastic optical network is typically segmented into
multiple autonomous domains, where each domain possesses high autonomy and privacy …

The elastic optical network (EON) can accommodate dynamic and diverse demands of next-
generation applications by provisioning flexible lightpaths for them. Consequently, blocking …

The escalating demands for network capacities catalyze the adoption of space division
multiplexing (SDM) technologies. With continuous advances in multi-core fiber (MCF) …

To enable flexible service provisioning in elastic optical networks (EONs), quality of
transmission (QoT) estimation and dynamic routing and spectrum assignment (RSA) are …

Fast convergence routing is a critical issue for Low Earth Orbit (LEO) constellation networks
because these networks have dynamic topology changes, and transmission requirements …

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 …

One of the key performance metrics for optical networks is the maximum achievable
throughput for a given network. Determining it, however, is a nondeterministic polynomial …

Elastic Optical Networks (EON) has emerged as technology in optical networks whose
architecture can respond to the growing need for elasticity in allocating optical network …

We present a new reward design for the deep reinforcement learning (DRL)-based routing,
modulation and spectrum assignment in the elastic optical networks (EONs). The …