With the growing popularity of 5G mobile communications, cloud and fog computing, 4K
video streaming, etc., population distribution and migration have increasing influence on …

With the increasing bandwidth requirements for people and the development of
urbanization, the movement of the population in the city (especially the supercity) has an …

Elastic optical networks (EONs) employ dynamic routing and spectrum assignment (RSA)
algorithms to support diverse services and heterogeneous requests. However, these RSA …

Elastic optical network, due to its flexibility of spectrum assignment, has been the most
promising technology in the next generation of backbone transport network. Routing and …

Empowered by multirate transmission and bandwidth-variable switching technology, elastic
optical networks (EONs) enhance spectrum utilization efficiency and increase network …

In this paper, we formulate an integer linear programming (ILP) to perform multicast routing
and spectrum assignment (MRSA) in elastic optical networks, which serves jointly a set of …

For addressing the problems of high bandwidth blocking probability and low spectrum
utilization caused by spectrum fragmentation in elastic optical networks (EONs), a dynamic …

Flexi-grid technology has emerged as the evolution of fixed-grid DWDM core optical
networks, enabling more efficient utilization of spectral resources and leading to higher …

Elastic optical networking is considered a promising candidate to improve the spectral
efficiency of optical networks. One of the most important planning challenges of elastic …

With the prevalence of some high bandwidth-demanding applications, such as cloud
computing, traditional wavelength-division-multiplexing passive optical networks have …