Bandwidth fragmentation, a serious issue in elastic optical networks (EONs), can be
suppressed by proper management in order to enhance the accommodated traffic demands …

The rapid growth in communications and internet has changed our way of life, and our
requirement for communication bandwidth. Optical networks can enable us to meet the …

The flex-grid technology or elastic optical network (EON) is accepted to be a propitious
solution for the future transport network due to its unique properties, which are bandwidth …

With the development of networking technologies, global Internet traffic is constantly
increasing. Moreover, various traffic types associated with a variety of network services and …

In elastic optical networks (EONs), a major obstacle to using the spectrum resources
efficiently is the spectrum fragmentation. In the literature, several defragmentation …

Hitless defragmentation has been introduced as an approach to limit the spectrum
fragmentation in elastic optical networks without traffic disruption. It facilitates the …

Compared with traditional wavelength division optical network, elastic optical network (EON)
divides the network spectrum into smaller spectrum slots to improve the spectrum utilization …

Routing and spectrum assignment (RSA) problem, in elastic optical networks, searches for a
route and a sufficient spectrum range to fit each network request. Solving these two …

Numerous studies have investigated elastic optical networks (EONs) with the aim of
expanding the transmission capacities of core networks. To achieve this goal, it is necessary …

Elastic optical networks (EONs) provide flexibility to assign wide range of spectral resources
to the connection requests. In this manuscript, we address two issues related to spectrum …