A survey on energy-aware design and operation of core networks

F Idzikowski, L Chiaraviglio, A Cianfrani… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A detailed survey of approaches reducing energy consumption of core networks is
presented in this paper. We consider a multilayer architecture, in which the optical layer can …

Efficient Network Slicing for 5G Services in Cloud Fog-RAN Deployment Over WDM Network

M Ahsan, A Ahmed, H Fida, A Al-Dweik… - IEEE Transactions …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network slicing in fifth generation (5G) radio access network (RAN) enables serving massive
network traffic with diverse and stringent quality of service (QoS) requirements. Multiple …

Functional split-aware optimal BBU placement for 5G cloud-RAN over WDM access/aggregation network

M Ahsan, A Ahmed, A Al-Dweik… - IEEE Systems Journal, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Fifth generation (5G) cloud-radio access network (C-RAN) aims at providing better
performance and support to various applications with stringent data rate and latency …

[PDF][PDF] 基于频谱感知的业务分割-合并的弹性光网络资源分配策略

刘焕淋, 徐一帆, 陈勇 - 电子与信息学报, 2016 - edit.jeit.ac.cn
针对弹性光网络中业务分割的资源分配策略消耗更多保护带与设备端口, 浪费频谱资源和增加
网络能耗的问题, 该文提出一种频谱感知的业务分割再合并的资源分配策略 …

Impact of data center placement on the power consumption of flexible-grid optical networks

I Khan, A Ahmad, MU Masood, AW Malik… - Optical …, 2020 - spiedigitallibrary.org
The increasing trend of global IP traffic is mainly driven by high-definition video services and
cloud computing and storage. Moreover, to maintain a high quality of service in content …

Switching node architectures in flexible-grid networks: A performance comparison

A Ahmad, A Bianco, E Bonetto… - … on Optical Network …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A migration from fixed-grid WDM networks to flexible-grid networks is foreseen as a solution
able to cope with the constant traffic increase in backbone networks. The migration will …

Smart provisioning of sliceable bandwidth variable transponders in elastic optical networks

MU Masood, I Khan, A Ahmad… - 2020 6th IEEE …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Prior provisioning of optical source technologies have techno-economic importance for the
operator during the design and planning of optical network architectonics. Advancement …

Spectrum-aware traffic split-merge resource allocation strategy for elastic optical networks

H LIU, Y XU, Y CHEN - 电子与信息学报, 2016 - jeit.ac.cn
Traffic split provisioning scheme leads to extra guard band and equipment ports occupation,
which decreases the spectrum utilization and increases the energy consumption for elastic …

Traffic-Aware Network Slicing for 5G Networks in Cloud Fog-RAN over WDM Architecture

M Ahsan, A Ahmed, S Ekin, J O'Hara… - … Conference on Smart …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Fifth generation (5G) mobile networks will utilize network slicing to support a diverse range
of services, each with distinct specifications for data rate, latency, and reliability. These …

Impact of fiber types and Raman pumping in reconfigurable DWDM transparent optical networks

A Ahmad, A Bianco, H Chouman… - 2015 European …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We study the impact of different fibers with moderate pumping hybrid amplification in
transparent networks using elastic transponders based on pure (PMF) or hybrid (TDHMF) …