Recent research progress on spectrum management approaches in software-defined elastic optical networks

BC Chatterjee, T Sato, E Oki - Optical Switching and Networking, 2018 - Elsevier
The flex-grid technology or elastic optical network (EON) is accepted to be a propitious
solution for the future transport network due to its unique properties, which are bandwidth …

An efficient network‐side path protection scheme in OFDM‐based elastic optical networks

H Dao, M Morvan, P Gravey - International Journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Elastic optical networks (EONs) based on orthogonal frequency division multiplexing
(OFDM) technologies are seen as a promising solution for next‐generation optical transport …

Optical physical layer SDN

Y Li, DC Kilper - Journal of Optical Communications and …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Optical system management software has been migrating toward software-defined
networking (SDN) methods and interfaces. The increased programmability of SDN promises …

Cross-layer adaptive elastic optical networks

I Sartzetakis, K Christodoulopoulos… - Journal of Optical …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Optical networks are designed to be operated statically: lightpaths are provisioned for
uninterrupted operation for several years using high margins to anticipate the deterioration …

Exploiting spectrum sharing for soft failure recovery

I Sartzetakis, N Sambo… - Journal of Optical …, 2018 - opg.optica.org
Elastic optical networks (EONs) offer several optimization dimensions that can be harvested
to increase network efficiency and survivability. More specifically, the adaptation of the …