The trade-off between more user bandwidth and quality of service requirements introduces
unprecedented challenges to the next generation smart optical networks. In this regard, the …

After decades of unprecedented development, modern networks have evolved far beyond
expectations in terms of scale and complexity. In many cases, traditional traffic engineering …

The tactile internet (TI) is believed to be the prospective advancement of the internet of
things (IoT), comprising human-to-machine and machine-to-machine communication. TI …

The unprecedented growth of the global Internet traffic, coupled with the large spatio-
temporal fluctuations that create, to some extent, predictable tidal traffic conditions, are …

Flow routing can achieve fine-grained network performance optimizations by routing distinct
packet traffic flows over different network paths. While the centralized control of Software …

Optical networks generate a vast amount of diagnostic, control, and performance monitoring
data. When information is extracted from these data, reconfigurable network elements and …

The ongoing roll-out of cloud–edge computing and Internet of Things (IoT) has been
simulating the boom of new advance reservation (AR) services, such as bulk-data migration …

Network function virtualization (NFV) in elastic optical datacenter interconnections (EO-
DCIs) enables flexible and timely deployment of network services. However, as the service …

Increased global traffic puts tough requirements not just on fiber communications links but
on the entire network. This manifests itself in multiple ways, including how to optimize …

For optical networks, routing and resource allocation which considerably determines the
resource efficiency and network capacity is one of the most important works. It has been …