Elastic Optical Networks (EONs) are a promising optical technology to deal with the ever-
increasing traffic and the vast number of connected devices of the next generation of the …

Nobody questions the importance of semiconductor lasers. The information they transmit is
the backbone of the World Wide Web, and they are increasingly finding new applications in …

In optical networking, virtual topologies have been introduced mainly to provide service
providers with logical connections equipped with a reserved amount of bandwidth, which …

Recent advances in the telecommunication industry offer great opportunities to citizens and
organizations in a globally connected world, but they also arise a vast number of complex …

We consider the problem of multipath entanglement distribution to a pair of nodes in a
quantum network consisting of devices with nondeterministic entanglement swapping …

Network topology design problems find application in several reallife scenarios. However,
most designs in the past either optimize for a single criterion like delay or assume simplistic …

The continuous growth of broadband communications, multimedia services and Internet is
absolutely related to the deployment and operation of optical networks. Despite optical …

Multiobjective network design is known to be a notoriously hard problem. Unfortunately, the
problem has several practical applications such as multicast communication and VLSI …

Delay Tolerant Networks (DTNs) ranging from Inter-Planetary Networks (IPN) to Vehicular
Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs) are receiving continuous attention in recent years. The existing …

In a distributed mobile Software Defined Mobile Network (SDMN), a device is in a
continuous movement from one domain to another. Since a different controller is responsible …