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 …

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 …

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 …

Multi-band (MB) technology arises as a suitable solution to increase capacity within future
6G networks, while efficiently utilizing the already deployed optical fiber infrastructure …

The need of introducing interoperability in the transport network segment has motivated the
emergence of several open initiatives and standardization efforts for the development of …

Future 5G networks will run into the massive spread of applications with diverse and
stringent requirements in terms of latency, reliability and security. Current multi-layer …

The new 5G service requirements will force operators to rethink the deployment of
infrastructure and management tools. The reuse of passive optical network (PON) …

The challenging performance targets of future 5G networks will require a radical change in
the network design with a much closer interaction between wireless and optical systems …

The upcoming 5G deployments will impose stringent requirements. Optical networks control
and resource orchestration is set to potentially turn into software-defined approaches in …

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 …