Flexgrid technology is now considered to be a promising solution for future high-speed
network design. In this context, we need a tutorial that covers the key aspects of elastic …

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 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 …

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 …

Spectrally-spatially elastic optical networks (SS-EONs) have been considered nowadays to
overcome the physical barrier and enhance the transport capacity, where enhancing …

Fragmentation with crosstalks is the major obstacle in spectrally-spatially elastic optical
networks, which suppresses resource utilization while degrading the quality-of-transmission …

In elastic optical networks, bandwidth fragmentation refers to the existence of non-aligned
and non-contiguous available subcarrier slots in the set of all subcarrier slots. Since …

Bandwidth fragmentation refers to the existence of non-aligned and non-contiguous
available subcarrier slots in elastic optical networks. Since spectrum for a connection must …

Signal transmission using counter-propagation nowadays is adopted to enhance resource
utilization in spectrally-spatially elastic optical networks (SS-EONs), where inter-mode and …

In the latest generation of optical fiber systems, broadband telecommunication network
access with ultrahigh speed services is almost realized by passive optical network (PON) …