The year-by-year increase in electricity consumption significantly affects all nations today
from environmental, social, and economic perspectives. Various studies show that, among …

This paper investigates the prospects and challenges of hierarchical optical path networks.
The merits and issues of introducing higher order optical paths are elucidated. State of the …

The transport network paradigm is moving toward next-generation networks that aim at IP
convergence, while architectures and technologies are diversifying. Video technologies …

To overcome the inefficiency of the rigid frequency allocation in traditional wavelength
division multiplexing (WDM) networks, the idea of slicing the optical spectrum for elastic and …

Presents results of the face verification contest that was organized in conjunction with
International Conference on Pattern Recognition 2000. Participants had to use identical data …

We present the first elastic, space division multiplexing, and multi-granular network based
on two 7-core MCF links and four programmable optical nodes able to switch traffic utilising …

Continuous wavelength tuning of optical comb filters, which is an essential functionality for
flexible signal processing in reconfigurable optical systems, has been challenging in high …

Feature Issue on Waveband Switching, Routing, and Grooming Optical networks using
wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) are the foremost solution to the ever-increasing …

The wavelength routed network (WRN) accommodates traffic demands by establishing
lightpaths along the corresponding routing paths. The wavelength of each lightpath is …

We propose a hierarchical optical path network design algorithm. In order to efficiently
accommodate wavelength paths in each waveband path, we define a source-destination …