Forthcoming capacity scaling requirements of optical networks and advances in optical fiber
communications beyond the omnipresent single-mode fiber operating over the conventional …

Software-defined networking (SDN) has attracted the attention of the research community in
recent years, as evidenced by a large number of survey and review papers. The architecture …

Abstract Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) are one of the special branches of Wireless
Sensor Networks (WSNs) that attract attention in various disciplines such as health …

Wireless body area networks (WBAN) provide remote services for patient monitoring which
allows healthcare practitioners to diagnose, monitor, and prescribe them without their …

An edge data center (EDC) network infrastructure is required to flexibly deliver massive
bandwidth and ultralow latency for a 5G edge cloud. Existing electrical-switching-based …

An SDN-controlled DCN enabling QoS-driven network-slice reconfiguration and packet
priority updating is experimentally assessed. Network-slice can be reconfigured within 150 …

With the deep physical-layer programmability enabled by software-defined networking
(SDN), it is now feasible to realize optical data center transceivers that adapt their …

The dynamicity of today's optical networks is far from its potential. Optical components, such
as fast-tunable lasers or semiconductor optical amplifiers, can react on a nanosecond time …

Software-defined network (SDN) is a new form of network architecture that has
programmability, ease of use, centralized control, and protocol independence. It has …

Optical networks are changing as new advanced technologies emerge. With each passing
year, their sizes and capabilities expand. The standard architecture for network control and …