Flexi-grid technology has emerged as the evolution of fixed-grid DWDM core optical
networks, enabling more efficient utilization of spectral resources and leading to higher …

Elastic optical networks are seen as a promising solution to improve spectrum utilization
efficiency by utilizing flex-grid optical orthogonal frequency division multiplexing technology …

This paper focuses on quantifying the efficiency of different methods used to allocate
resources in flexgrid optical networks. These methods are based on a recently proposed …

This paper focuses on off-line dimensioning offlexgrid networks. As any operator wishes to
satisfy all trafficdemands characterized by a traffic matrix, considering blockingas an …

This work describes a distributed algorithm inspired by ant colony optimisation for a solution
to the problem of dynamic routing and wavelength assignment with wavelength continuity …

This paper focuses on quantifying the efficiency of an off-line dimensioning process for
flexgrid optical networks. We assume that a network operator attempts to optimize the …

This thesis describes novel contributions in the field of physical layer aware optical
networks. IP traffic increase and revenue compression in the Telecom industry is putting a lot …

With the diversified development for network service in terms of quality of service,
bandwidth, and noise tolerance, variable-bandwidth gridless optical networks (V-GON) have …

The world's hunger for connectivity appears to be endlessly growing, yet the capacity of the
networks that underpin that connectivity is anything but endless. This thesis explores both …

In this chapter, we consider the problem of routing, modulation and spectrum assignment
(RMSA) with holding time awareness in elastic optical networks. We consider a two …