Flexgrid technology is now considered to be a promising solution for future high-speed
network design. In this context, we need a tutorial that covers the key aspects of elastic …

Rigid fixed-grid wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) optical networks can no longer
keep up with the emerging bandwidth-hungry and highly dynamic services in an efficient …

In recent years, OFDM has been the focus of extensive research efforts in optical
transmission and networking, initially as a means to overcome physical impairments in …

With the growth of Internet users' traffic demands, the efficient and cost-effective usage of
bandwidth and spectrum in optical networks plays an important role in improving service …

As optical networks continue to evolve to support increasing bandwidth demands, lightpaths
will take on different spectrum spaces as opposed to the current uniform 50-GHz grid …

The rapid growth in communications and internet has changed our way of life, and our
requirement for communication bandwidth. Optical networks can enable us to meet the …

Traffic grooming has evolved to present some new features in sliceable bandwidth-variable
transponder enabled elastic optical networks (SBVT-EON). One of the new features is …

Elastic Optical Networks (EONs) are a promising optical technology to deal with the ever-
increasing traffic and the vast number of connected devices of the next generation of the …

Filter bank multicarrier with offset quadrature amplitude modulation (FBMC/OQAM) is a
promising candidate for 5G mobile fronthaul system. Due to the inherent imaginary …

This chapter discusses the changes in technology option or design to support the elastic
concept in an optical network. Next, it introduces in detail some practical aspects of the …