Orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) is a modulation technology that has
been widely adopted in many new and emerging broadband wireless and wireline …

Rigid fixed-grid wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) optical networks can no longer
keep up with the emerging bandwidth-hungry and highly dynamic services in an efficient …

Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) has recently been proposed as a
modulation technique for optical networks, because of its good spectral efficiency, flexibility …

Elastic optical networks (EONs) are considered to be one of the promising future networks
for spectrum flexibility. In conventional wavelength-division multiplexing networks, routing …

A spectrum-sliced elastic optical path network (SLICE) architecture has been recently
proposed as an efficient solution for a flexible bandwidth allocation in optical networks. In …

In recent years, OFDM has been the focus of extensive research efforts in optical
transmission and networking, initially as a means to overcome physical impairments in …

With the growth of Internet users' traffic demands, the efficient and cost-effective usage of
bandwidth and spectrum in optical networks plays an important role in improving service …

We evaluate the advantages of using the extra dimension introduced by space-division
multiplexing (SDM) for dynamic bandwidth-allocation purposes in a flexible optical network …

Elastic optical networks (EONs) have been receiving extensive attention because of their
inherent flexibility and the efficiency with which they allocate fiber-bandwidth. For an EON …

In the past few years, many researchers have studied elastic optical networks, which exhibit
a dramatically improved transmission capacity compared with conventional optical networks …