Reconfigurable optical networks have emerged as a promising technology to efficiently
serve the fast-growing traffic produced by the digital society. This paper provides a survey of …

We propose a novel security enhancement technique for a physical layer secure orthogonal
frequency division multiplexed passive optical network (OFDM-PON) based on three …

Passive optical networks (PONs) are currently evolving into next-generation PONs (NG-
PONs) which aim at achieving higher data rates, wavelength channel counts, number of …

The use of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) in smart agriculture has emerged in recent
years. LoRaWAN (Long Range Wide Area Networks) is widely recognized as one of the …

The advent of Internet of Things and 5G applications renders the need for integration of both
centralized cloud computing and emerging mobile-edge computing (MEC) with existing …

The continuous growth in mobile network traffic driven by the extensive range of new user
applications, for instance, interactive e-learning, social networking sites, remote medical …

Phasor measurement units (PMUs) significantly benefit the operation and control of power
systems. They offer precise phasor measurements with a high refresh rate. These …

Telecommunications companies are constantly chasing continuous technological advances
with their management methods of Operations & Maintenance (O&M) that still struggle to …

Passive optical networks (PONs) are the most successful broadband access solutions for its
wide bandwidth, low-cost deployment worldwide, and maintenance. In the last decade, the …

Telecommunications networks need to guarantee that all node pairs involved in critical
service communications are highly available. Here we adopt a novel approach to the …