The emerging software defined networking (SDN) paradigm separates the data plane from
the control plane and centralizes network control in an SDN controller. Applications interact …

A variety of communication networks, such as industrial communication systems, have to
provide strict delay guarantees to the carried flows. Fast and close to optimal quality of …

A low-complexity model for signal quality prediction in a nonlinear fiber-optic network is
developed. The model, which builds on the Gaussian noise model, takes into account the …

Traditionally, research on routing and wavelength assignment over wavelength-routed WDM
networks is concerned with immediate reservation (IR) demands. An IR demand typically …

Core optical networks using reconfigurable optical switches and tunable lasers appear to be
on the road towards widespread deployment and could evolve to all-optical mesh networks …

We propose a cognitive Quality of Transmission (QoT) estimator for classifying lightpaths
into high or low quality categories in impairment-aware wavelength-routed optical networks …

As optical networks undergo rapid development, the trade-offs among higher network
service capability, and increasing operating expense (OPEX) about operations …

Due to the emergence of bandwidth-requiring services, telecommunication operators are
brought to renew their fixed access network, most of them favoring the Fiber To The Home …

Ethernet's success in local area networks (LANs) is fueling the efforts to extend its reach to
cover metro and long-haul networks. This new Ethernet is refereed to as Carrier Ethernet …

Since light-paths are the basic connections in wavelength routed networks, their effective
establishment is very important. Routing and Wavelength Assignment (RWA) techniques …