Bandwidth fragmentation, a serious issue in elastic optical networks (EONs), can be
suppressed by proper management in order to enhance the accommodated traffic demands …

The interconnection of all things is developing a new diagram of future information networks.
However, it is difficult to realize future applications with only one single technique …

Elastic optical networks (EONs) enable network operators to have agile bandwidth
management in the optical layer. In this paper, we investigate dynamic and adaptive …

The rapid growth in communications and internet has changed our way of life, and our
requirement for communication bandwidth. Optical networks can enable us to meet the …

How serious is spectrum fragmentation in an elastic optical network? It is addressed by the
tremendous provisioning gain achieved by eliminating a particular kind of fragmentation …

Achievable capacity of optical fiber is approaching its physical limitation in frequency
domain. Space division multiplexing (SDM) technology can scale the network capacity using …

Efficient resource allocation and management can enhance the capacity of an optical
backbone network. In this context, spectrum retuning via hitless defragmentation has been …

Space division multiplexing enabled elastic optical networks (SDM-EONs) with multi-core
fiber (MCF) have become a promising candidate for future optical transport networks, due to …

Hitless defragmentation has been introduced as an approach to limit the spectrum
fragmentation in elastic optical networks without traffic disruption. It facilitates the …

Flexible-grid elastic optical networks (EONs) have attracted intensive research interests for
the agile spectrum management in the optical layer. Meanwhile, due to the relatively small …