Abstract Elastic Optical Networks (EON) emerge as a viable solution to support the current
growing demand for bandwidth. With the application of multi-core fibers (MCF) in EON links …

Elastic optical networks employing multi-core fibers (MCF-EON) have the potential to
expand significantly the transmission capacity of optical transport. However, wide …

Protection is a key issue in optical networks, mainly in spacial division multiplexing (SDM)
elastic optical networks (EONs) as these handle the increasing amount of heterogeneous …

The adoption ofSpace division multiplexing (SDM) in elastic optical networks brings new
challenges for spectrum allocation. This paper proposes an algorithm for routing, spectrum …

Space division multiplexing is a promising solution, which has been proposed for elastic
optical networks to deal with the anticipated exhaustion of the capacity of single core …

The sustained growth of network traffic has aggravated transmission capacity limitation
problems. Recently, elastic optical networks (EONs) based on space division multiplexing …

Abstract Space division multiplexing (SDM) based on multi-core fiber (MCF) is a promising
solution for the expansion of optical network transmission capacity in elastic optical networks …

The rapidly increasing data demand from current Internet services, such as cloud computing
and high-quality video streaming, is raising the pressure on network operators to provide …

Due to the modern bandwidth-intensive, ever heterogeneous, and evolving network traffic,
exhaustion of network resources under current technologies is foreseeable. In order to …

With the persistently growing popularity of internet traffic, telecom operators are forced to
provide high-capacity, cost-efficient, and performance-adaptive connectivity solutions to …