Towards converged, collaborative and co-automatic (3C) optical networks

Y Ji, J Zhang, X Wang, H Yu - Science China information sciences, 2018 - Springer
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 …

On the cross-layer orchestration to address IP router outages with cost-efficient multilayer restoration in IP-over-EONs

S Liu, W Lu, Z Zhu - Journal of Optical Communications and …, 2018 - opg.optica.org
Due to the flexibility and adaptivity of elastic optical networks (EONs), IP-over-EON would be
a promising infrastructure for next-generation backbone networks. As a backbone network …

DL-assisted cross-layer orchestration in software-defined IP-over-EONs: From algorithm design to system prototype

S Liu, B Niu, D Li, M Wang, S Tang, J Kong… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2019 - opg.optica.org
Recently, with the development of IP and elastic optical networks (EONs), the network
control and management (NC&M) scheme for IP-over-EONs, which can facilitate effective …

An SDN-enabled multi-layer protection and restoration mechanism

B Mirkhanzadeh, A Shakeri, C Shao, M Razo… - Optical Switching and …, 2018 - Elsevier
Transport networks consist of multiple layers, technologies, and areas of deployment. For
example, they combine electronic packet and wavelength circuit switching in a single …

A survey on multi-layer IP and optical Software-Defined Networks

M Kantor, E Biernacka, P Boryło, J Domżał… - Computer Networks, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract As Software-Defined Networks become more and more popular, they start to
appear in various architectures. The most common utilization of SDN is to control the …

Entropy-driven adaptive INT and its applications in network automation of IP-over-EONs

Z Xu, S Tang, Z Zhu - IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recently, IP over elastic optical network (IP-over-EON) has become a promising architecture
for metro and core networks. This work studies how to visualize both layers of an IP-over …

How to mislead AI-assisted network automation in SD-IPoEONs: A comparison study of DRL-and GAN-based approaches

M Wang, H Lu, S Liu, Z Zhu - Journal of Lightwave Technology, 2020 - opg.optica.org
Recently, the combination of artificial intelligence (AI) and software-defined networking
(SDN) has attracted intensive research interests because it realizes and promotes AI …

Supporting dynamic bandwidth adjustment based on virtual transport link in software-defined IP over optical networks

Y Zhou, B Ramamurthy, B Guo… - Journal of Optical …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Packet and optical networks are managed independently in both current carrier networks
and datacenter interconnection networks, which results in a lack of service agility and is a …

Demonstration of an SDN orchestrator for both flow provisioning and fault handling in an Ethernet-over-WDM Network

B Mirkhanzadeh, C Shao, M Razo… - 2017 19th …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
PROnet is a two-layer Research and Education Network (REN) deployed at and around the
UT Dallas campus. PROnet makes use of a Software Defined Networking (SDN) …

All-optical spectral shuffling of signals traveling through different optical routes

T de Andrade Bragagnolle… - 2019 21st …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A recent proposed physical layer encryption technique uses an all-optical setup based on
spatial light modulators to split two or more wavelength division multiplexed (WDM) signals …