Centralized processing is expected to bring about substantial benefits for wireless networks
both on the technical side and on the economic side. While this concept is considered an …

While the concept of Software Defined Networking (SDN) has seen a rapid deployment
within the data center community, its adoption in telecommunications network has …

The Control Orchestration Protocol (COP) abstracts a common set of control plane functions
used by an various SDN controllers, allowing the interworking of heterogeneous control …

Network protection against link failure is required to allow packets to reach the destination
with minimal packet loss when a failure occurs. When a link fails, traffic that attempts to use …

In this paper, the underestimated challenges of the burst-mode operation in the upstream
path of time-and-wavelength-division-multiplexed passive optical networks are analyzed …

Unlike in copper or wireless networks, there is no sharing of resources in fiber access
networks yet, other than bit stream access or cable sharing, in which the fibers of a cable are …

We demonstrate fast restoration of PON services with a dual-homed, shared-OLT protection
mechanism. Using the SDN-controlled pan-European GEANT core network, we demonstrate …

The long reach passive optical network (LR-PON) is a promising scheme for access
networks that cover large areas. For designing an access network, an exact solution of the …

In this paper, we analyse promising network architectures with the potential to support the
transport of 5G services. The main challenges of network architectures for functional and …

To enable and sustain the" Internet Society" in the next future, characterized by an
exponential growth of bandwidth and Quality-of-Service requirements by users …