Expanding broadband services represents a significant challenge for broadband operators,
especially in light of the requirements related to the total cost of ownership of these …

Predeployment of regenerators in a selected subset of network nodes allows service
providers to achieve rapid provisioning of traffic demands, high utilization, and reduced …

Telecommunication is a fast growing industry entailing regular technology developments.
Communication service providers (CSPs) have to adapt to the latest technologies by …

Networks are frequently changing due to new technologies. The growing demand for
bandwidth is forcing many carriers to migrate their existing network to a network with a new …

Service availability is an important issue in optical networks. Much research attention has
been drawn to the provisioning of reliable connections achieved by approaches such as …

In the early 2000s, a large number of companies thrived mainly due to the fast‐paced
evolution of network and Internet technologies. A similar trend is now emerging with the rise …

Networks are frequently changing due to new technologies. To increase the network
performance, companies migrate their existing network to a network with a new technology …

In this paper, we consider the nodes migration scheduling problem that aims to migrate
nodes from an outdated access network to a new one. In order to avoid services' …

The telecommunications industry is growing very fast and frequently faces technological
developments. Due to the competition between service providers and high expected …

Current fixed grid DWDM networks are expected to be insufficient to accommodate expected
demands in few years. Hence, operators need to compare different alternatives to cope with …