Reconfigurable optical networks have emerged as a promising technology to efficiently
serve the fast-growing traffic produced by the digital society. This paper provides a survey of …

Cloud service providers use replication across geographically distributed data centers to
improve end-to-end performance as well as to offer high reliability under failures. Content …

With high-bandwidth and on-demand applications continuing to emerge, next-generation
core optical networks will require significant improvements in capacity, configurability, and …

We introduce the concept of elastic reservation of bandwidth capacity to mitigate the
problem of bandwidth fragmentation in LambdaGrids and present a network model which …

This dissertation proposes a new data transport protocol for bulk data transfer over high-
speed wide area networks. This new protocol is called UDT, or UDP-based Data Transfer …

Advance reservation is an important part of grid computing. It guarantees that resources will
be available at a pre-determined time to participate in the execution of a grid application …

The scheme of advance reservations in dynamically provisioned optical networks is novel,
and there are no grid-based applications designed to utilize this scheme. We formally define …

Dynamic optical networks hold the potential of satisfying very large bandwidth requirements
of many of the grid applications. However, encapsulation of optical network elements into …

This paper presents an overview of the Just-In-Time (JIT) control plane and GridJIT service
that has been developed for optical networks and describes several related projects. We …

Advance reservations (ARs) were introduced for application-level dynamic scheduling of
resources in a Grid infrastructure. Advance reservations of resources for a specific time in …