The interconnection of all things is developing a new diagram of future information networks.
However, it is difficult to realize future applications with only one single technique …

In the last twenty years, optical networks have witnessed recurrent changes in their
management and control architecture. In this paper, we present a historical timeline and a …

With the evolution of Internet and extensive usage of smart devices for computing and
storage, cloud computing has become popular. It provides seamless services such as e …

The adoption of the virtualization paradigm in both computing and networking domains
portends a landscape of heterogeneous service capabilities and resources pervasively …

A collaborative integration between cloud and edge computing is proposed to be able to
exploit the advantages of both technologies. However, most of the existing studies have only …

In an optical inter-datacenter (inter-DC) network, for preventing data loss, a cloud system
usually leverages multiple DCs for obtaining sufficient data redundancy. In order to improve …

With its agile spectrum management in the optical layer, the flexible-grid elastic optical
network can become a promising physical infrastructure to efficiently support the highly …

With the rapid development of cloud computing, optical inter-datacenter (inter-DC) networks
have attracted intensive research attentions. Meanwhile, recent advances on the flexible …

One of the main challenges of cloud-based service provisioning is to deploy a coordinated
control of both application-and network-layer resources in order to provide adaptive service …

Explains the importance of Elastic Optical Networks (EONs) and how they can be
implemented by the world's carriers This book discusses Elastic Optical Networks (EONs) …