The concept of elasticity has been proposed in the design of next generation optical
networks in tackling the problem of efficient utilization of network resources and increasing …

Optical multicasting has been considered resource efficient for multicast services. Light-tree
and light-trail are two technologies that support optical multicasting while the former requires …

The elastic light-trail technology reigning the recent trend for data communication in elastic
optical network (EON) prominently. Here, the Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing …

Internet traffic is experiencing an enormous growth and increased demand for new services.
To enhance flexibility and improved spectral efficiency of traditional WDM optical networks …

With the increase in global wireless traffic, the use of large-scale satellite networking to
provide ubiquitous access is one of the essential trends of future 6G network development …

The increasing demands for higher spectrum efficiency have made elastic optical networks
(EON) to be an interesting area for the research community. The possibility that some …

An elastic light-trail, the advanced version of a traditional light-trail, is one of the most recent
dynamic traffic grooming technologies in an elastic optical network. In such networks …

Is Light-Trail Worse Than Light- Tree for Multicast Provisioning in Elastic Optical Networks?
Page 1 978-1-6654-5898-6/22/$31.00 ©2022 IEEE Is Light-Trail Worse Than Light-Tree for …

Elastic optical networks allow for a division of the optical spectrum into frequency slots,
which can be combined to create channels with bandwidth defined by demand. Their …

Due to huge size of the data and quick transmission of data between the nodes present in
the optical network, a condition of network traffic is created among the nodes of the network …