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 …

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 …

Utilizing the dormant path diversity through multipath routing in the Internet to reach end
users-thereby fulfilling their QoS requirements-is rather logical. While offering better …

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 …

Elastic optical network (EON) is a promising technology that provides flexible modulation
format conversion, which allows more efficient use of spectrum resources comparing to …

The paper presents a novel method based on the standard tabu search (TS) approach,
dedicated to solve the routing, modulation and spectrum allocation (RMSA) problem in …

Traffic grooming and multipath routing are two techniques that are widely adopted to
increase the performance of traditional wavelength division multiplexed networks. They …

In this paper, we focus on the survivability of elastic optical networks (EONs) that jointly
support two types of traffic demands: unicast and anycast. To provide network survivability …

The paper presents a novel method based on the standard tabu search (TS) approach,
dedicated to solve the routing, modulation and spectrum allocation (RMSA) problem in …

Elastic optical networks (EONs) have emerged as the preferred technology for future optical
networks because of its ability to manage network resources efficiently and provide better …