Flexgrid technology is now considered to be a promising solution for future high-speed
network design. In this context, we need a tutorial that covers the key aspects of elastic …

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

Rigid fixed-grid wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) optical networks can no longer
keep up with the emerging bandwidth-hungry and highly dynamic services in an efficient …

In flexi-grid optical networks, fragmentation of spectrum resources may significantly affect the
overall network efficiency. Effective techniques for defragmentation (ie, re-optimization) are …

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 …

Quality of Service-enabled applications and services rely on Traffic Engineering-based (TE)
Label Switched Paths (LSP) established in core networks and controlled by the GMPLS …

Elastic optical network (EON) architectures have been recently proposed as a candidate
solution for provisioning of both huge bandwidth and flexible connections in next generation …

This paper studies the routing, modulation format, and spectrum allocation problem in elastic
fiber-optical networks for static traffic. Elastic networks, based on Nyquist wavelength …

This article provides motivation for the elastic optical network (EON) approach, an efficient
and cost-effective solution for provisioning of cloud computing traffic. As opposed to …

Flexible-grid elastic optical networks (EONs) have attracted intensive research interests for
the agile spectrum management in the optical layer. Meanwhile, due to the relatively small …