Considering middle-term predictions of the need for commercial 10-Tb/s optical interfaces
working in 1-P b/s optical transport systems by 2024 and recalling the introduction of the …

Accurate real-time availability of transmission parameters at the network controller has the
potential to significantly improve the efficiency of control and management operations …

Future communication systems are faced with increased demand for high capacity, dynamic
bandwidth, reliability and heterogeneous traffic. To meet these requirements, networks have …

This tutorial highlights challenges and opportunities in achieving efficient flexible optical
networks. Optical signal processing may potentially increase network flexibility because of …

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 …

Space division multiplexing (SDM) and elastic optical networking (EON) have been
proposed to increase the transmission capacity and flexibility of optical transport networks …

Various types of optical fiber networks have been conceived, designed, and built to satisfy a
wide range of transmission capacities and speeds. The link lengths between users can vary …

Traffic in optical backbone networks is evolving rapidly in terms of type, volume, and
dynamicity following the rapid growth of cloud-based services, ongoing adoption of 5G …

As the services in elastic optical networks (EONs) are bandwidth-intensive, unpredictable
and dynamic, increasing network factors are emerging to affect the performance of network …

Increasing demands for data centers, backbone, access, and wireless networks require
inventive concepts to transmit and distribute digital or analog signal waveforms. We present …