In recent years, OFDM has been the focus of extensive research efforts in optical
transmission and networking, initially as a means to overcome physical impairments in …

Elastic optical networks (EONs) have been receiving extensive attention because of their
inherent flexibility and the efficiency with which they allocate fiber-bandwidth. For an EON …

In this position paper on reliable networks, we discuss new trends in the design of reliable
communication systems. We focus on a wide range of research directions including …

Elastic optical network (EON) architectures have been recently proposed as a candidate
solution for provisioning of both huge bandwidth and flexible connections in next generation …

This study investigates the survivable traffic grooming problem for elastic optical networks
with flexible spectrum grid employing new transmission technologies. In such networks …

In this article, we address the problem of static routing and spectrum allocation (RSA) in an
elastic optical network (EON) with dedicated path protection (DPP) consideration. We …

Elastic Optical Network (EON) architectures are considered as a very promising solution for
both huge bandwidth and flexible connection provisioning in next generation optical …

Traffic grooming (TG) has been proposed in two ways as electrical and optical grooming to
efficiently utilize spectrum and transponders due to omitting guard bands between adjacent …

Elastic optical network (EON) architectures are a very promising solution for next generation
optical networks. In EON, a basic problem in network design and operation is the problem of …

From the analysis of statistical properties of real networks, it is found that general extreme
value (GEV) distribution provides an accurate model for link length statistics of optical …