Software defined optical networks (SDONs): A comprehensive survey

AS Thyagaturu, A Mercian, MP McGarry… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The emerging software defined networking (SDN) paradigm separates the data plane from
the control plane and centralizes network control in an SDN controller. Applications interact …

FLCS-PON–A 100 Gbit/s flexible passive optical network: Concepts and field trial

R Borkowski, M Straub, Y Ou, Y Lefevre… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We demonstrate concepts and results of a field trial for a flexible-rate passive optical network
(FLCS-PON), which delivers bitrates up to 100 Gbit/s and allows for adaptations in the …

Flexible and adaptive coherent PON for next-generation optical access network

J Zhang, G Li, S ** and soft-input FEC: operator trial and ODN case studies
R Borkowski, Y Lefevre, A Mahadevan… - Journal of Optical …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
FLCS-PON is a concept of a flexible passive optical network (PON), where the modulation
and coding parameters of the downstream signal, consisting of modulation order, code rate …

Investigation of modulation schemes for flexible line-rate high-speed TDM-PON

VE Houtsma, DT van Veen - Journal of Lightwave Technology, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We investigated modulation schemes for realizing flexible line-rate PON. The flexibility can
be used to optimize PON resource usage. We considered cases based on experimental …