Reconfigurable optical networks have emerged as a promising technology to efficiently
serve the fast-growing traffic produced by the digital society. This paper provides a survey of …

With the rapid development of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), massive IIoT devices
connect to industrial networks via wired and wireless. Furthermore, industrial networks pose …

A programmable logic controller deployed in the cloud or edge cloud (cloud PLC)
contributes to flexible and scalable industrial manufacturing processes. For the industrial …

Humankind has entered a new era wherein a main characteristic is the convergence of
various technologies providing services and exerting a major impact upon all aspects of …

Prediction of the quality of transmission (QoT) in optical communication networks is a critical
task to ensure reliable transmission and optimized operation. Accurate QoT estimation is …

By massively digitalizing production processes, the industry expects an efficient and secure
cooperation of a large number of machines, as well as an increasing integration of IT …

In this paper, we present a distributed medium access control (MAC) protocol and a network
architecture suitable for optical intra-rack data center networks (DCNs). The intra-rack …

Next generation optical metro networks need to serve heterogeneous access traffic with
guaranteed quality of service (QoS) and lower CAPEX and OPEX. In this context, an …

The dynamicity of today's optical networks is far from its potential. Optical components, such
as fast-tunable lasers or semiconductor optical amplifiers, can react on a nanosecond time …

With the rapid development of Industrial 4.0, massive emerging time-critical applications
pose new demands for industrial networks, such as strict latency boundaries, ultra-reliable …