Video encoding for multimedia services over communication networks has significantly
advanced in recent years with the development of the highly efficient and flexible H …

Current Gigabit-class passive optical networks (PONs) evolve into next-generation PONs,
whereby high-speed 10+ Gb/s time division multiplexing (TDM) and long-reach wavelength …

Multi-thread polling (MTP) with offline scheduling and offline excess bandwidth distribution
has recently been proposed to overcome the long propagation delay of long-reach passive …

This chapter discusses the changes in technology option or design to support the elastic
concept in an optical network. Next, it introduces in detail some practical aspects of the …

We provide models for evaluating the performance, cost and power consumption of different
architectures suitable for a metropolitan area network (MAN). We then apply these models to …

In this paper we establish a necessary and sufficient stability condition for a stochastic ring
network. Such networks naturally appear in a variety of applications within communication …

In this editorial, we first set the context for the subject matter of this special issue on passive
optical network (PON) supported networking. This context includes a discussion of optical …

The increased propagation delay of future long-reach passive optical networks (LR-PONs)
may lead to a significantly increased idle time and delay if optical network units (ONUs) use …

For future WDM MANs, optical packet-switching has been considered to be a promising
paradigm that efficiently supports a wide range of Internet-based applications having time …

In this paper, we propose to use a novel network architecture of multiple optical burst rings to
improve the interpod communications of the internal networks of data centers. In the …