Bandwidth fragmentation, a serious issue in elastic optical networks (EONs), can be
suppressed by proper management in order to enhance the accommodated traffic demands …

Paradoxically, with an ever-increasing traffic demand, today transport-network operators
experience a progressive erosion of their margins. The alarms of change are set, and …

In the past few years, many researchers have studied elastic optical networks, which exhibit
a dramatically improved transmission capacity compared with conventional optical networks …

The rapid growth in communications and internet has changed our way of life, and our
requirement for communication bandwidth. Optical networks can enable us to meet the …

Availability-aware service provisioning tries to satisfy the availability requirements of clients
on demand and can improve the resource efficiency in optical networks. This paper studies …

Spectrum fragmentation limits the efficiency of spectrum utilization in elastic optical networks
(EONs). This paper studies how to take advantage of the centralized network control and …

Elastic optical networks (EONs) facilitate agile spectrum management in the optical layer.
When coupling with software-defined networking, they function as software-defined EONs …

This paper proposes an evolutionary transfer learning approach (Evol-TL) for scalable
quality-of-transmission (QoT) estimation in multi-domain elastic optical networks (MD …

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 …

Elastic optical networks (EONs) are considered a very promising solution for next-generation
optical networks. Elastic spectral bandwidth allocation promotes spectrum utilization …