Based on the concept of infrastructure as a service, optical network virtualization can
facilitate the sharing of physical infrastructure among different users and applications. In this …

This paper tries to solve the location-constrained virtual network embedding (LC-VNE)
problem efficiently. We first investigate the complexity of LC-VNE, and by leveraging the …

It is known that by incorporating network function virtualization (NFV) in inter-datacenter
(inter-DC) networks, service providers can use their network resources more efficiently and …

Software defined networking allows network providers to share their physical network (PN)
among multiple tenants by means of network slicing, where several virtual networks (VNs) …

The traffic between geographically distributed data centers (DCs) becomes bandwidth
hungry. Since the optical interconnection has a high capacity, the optical data center …

In this work, we study the availability-aware survivable virtual network embedding (A-SVNE)
problem in optical interdatacenter networks that use wavelength-division multiplexing. With …

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 …

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 …

Acting as a promising technology to bring revolutionary changes to how the networks are
architected, network function virtualization (NFV) leverages IT virtualization technologies to …

To realize cost-effective and adaptive network control and management (NC&M) on inter-
datacenter optical networks (IDCONs), people have considered network virtualization to let …