With the rapid development of cloud computing, optical inter-datacenter (inter-DC) networks
have attracted intensive research attentions. Meanwhile, recent advances on the flexible …

Since the optical orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (O-OFDM) technology can
facilitate agile spectrum management, the elastic optical infrastructure based on it has …

The expanding adoption of cloud-based services in recent years puts stringent requirements
on datacenters (DCs) and their interconnection networks. Optical inter-datacenter networks …

The growing number of services like Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) and cloud
computing triggers a sustainable growth of data transfer and consequently leads to an …

Inter-datacenter services such as data replication and virtual machine migration contribute
significantly to the underlying network traffic. These bulk-data transfer services can tolerate …

The ever-increasing demand for cloud services is posing serious challenges to the
scalability of the computing, storing, and networking infrastructure deployed inside the …

In this work, we address the problem of jointly deciding the placement of the contents
delivered by a Content Distribution Network (CDN) among the available data centers …

Facing the huge traffic challenge, optical networking shows great advantages on capacity
and energy issues. However, the efficiency and flexibility are not satisfactory to the data …

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

This paper discusses prospects and challenges of optical networking designed to meet
exponentially growing demands of data traffic. We discuss both intra and inter data-center …