The quality of service (QoS) offered by optical networks can be improved by accurate
provisioning of service level specifications (SLSs) included in the service level agreement …

In this paper, we present a quality-of-transmission (QoT) aware dynamic routing, modulation
level, and spectrum assignment scheme referred to as QoT-aware RSA. The proposed QoT …

In recent years, OFDM-based elastic optical network (EON) has drawn a lot of attention in
both academia and industry. Compared to traditional optical wavelength division …

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 …

Compared with traditional wavelength division optical network, elastic optical network (EON)
divides the network spectrum into smaller spectrum slots to improve the spectrum utilization …

Elastic optical networks have recently emerged as one of the most promising technologies
for creating next-generation optical core networks thanks to the adaptive spectrum allocation …

Optical transport networks are being continuously upgraded to cope with the ever increasing
capacity requirements. Improving the energy-and spectral-efficiency while maintaining high …

Elastic optical networks technologies feature several benefits including higher spectral
efficiency, system capacity and therefore have been widely viewed as the promising …

The quality-of-transmission (QoT) degradation due to the dispersion effect in longer
lightpaths is higher than that of shorter lightpaths in a dispersion uncompensated network …

The transmission capacity of traditional single core fibers is reaching its upper bound. Space-
division multiplexing (SDM) leveraging multi-core fibers is considered to be a promising …