In the last twenty years, optical networks have witnessed recurrent changes in their
management and control architecture. In this paper, we present a historical timeline and a …

This paper proposes, designs, and validates a filterless metro network employing
bidirectional transmission over a single fiber. Transmission impairments, dominated by cross …

To efficiently support the high rate and the high dynamicity of the traffic in metro networks, an
optical packet-switched WDM ring, named ECOFRAME, is proposed. The key features of the …

Future optical metropolitan area networks (MANs) have been expected to exploit advanced
optical packet switching (OPS) technologies to cost-effectively satisfy a wide range of …

For future WDM MANs, optical packet-switching has been considered to be a promising
paradigm that efficiently supports a wide range of Internet-based applications having time …

The migration of DataCenters into Metropolitan Area Networks creates new challenges
which include the need for rapid service provisioning and recovery and new, cost-effective …

The present paper considers a WDM optical packet ring in which multiple wavelengths are
operated in a synchronous manner. This architecture attempts to blend packet switching …

The continuous increasing of the Internet traffic has brought serious concerns about capacity
exhaustion of the optical infrastructure in a medium term horizon. Taking into account the …

The explosion of current demand has brought the contemporary multidomain core network
paradigm to its limit. In the quest for new approaches that exploit recent developments in …

This article presents first the history of the optical fiber transport networks, from the
introduction of the first high capacity systems in the 1990s to the 10 Gbit/s per channel WDM …