Abstract Software-Defined Networking (SDN) is an evolutionary networking paradigm which
has been adopted by large network and cloud providers, among which are Tech Giants …

With the rapid development of Internet and communication systems, both in the aspect of
services and technologies, communication networks have been suffering increasing …

Failure management plays a role of capital importance in optical networks to avoid service
disruptions and to satisfy customers' service level agreements. Machine learning (ML) …

The serverless technology, introduced for data center operation, represents an attractive
technology for latency-sensitive applications operated at the edge, enabling a resource …

Operators' network management continuously measures network health by collecting data
from the deployed network devices; data is used mainly for performance reporting and …

This paper proposes a self-taught anomaly detection framework for optical networks. The
proposed framework makes use of a hybrid unsupervised and supervised machine learning …

In order to accomplish cost-efficient management of complex optical communication
networks, operators are seeking automation of network diagnosis and management by …

Next-generation edge nodes interfacing innovative IT clusters, 5G fronthaul, and internet of
things (IoT) gateways to the optical metro/core network will require advanced and dynamic …

Soft-failure localization frameworks typically use if-else rules to localize failures based on
the received telemetry data. However, in certain cases, particularly in disaggregated …

OpenConfig and OpenROADM are emerging as the most relevant initiatives to support
partial disaggregation, in which the optical line system is provided by a single vendor while …