Reconfigurable optical networks have emerged as a promising technology to efficiently
serve the fast-growing traffic produced by the digital society. This paper provides a survey of …

Communication networks are the key enabling technology for our digital society. In order to
sustain their critical services in the future, communication networks need to flexibly …

This paper presents a systematic approach to identify and quantify the types of structures
featured by packet traces in communication networks. Our approach leverages an …

The physical topology is emerging as the next frontier in an ongoing effort to render
communication networks more flexible. While first empirical results indicate that these …

Emerging optical technologies introduce opportunities to recon gure network topologies at
runtime. The resulting topological exibilities can be exploited to design novel demand-aware …

Fiber optic cables connecting data centers are an expensive but important resource for large
organizations. Their importance has driven a conservative deployment approach, with …

The emerging Software-Defined Networking (SDN) is being adopted by data centers and
cloud service providers to enable flexible control. Meanwhile, the current SDN design brings …

Abstract The emerging Software-Defined Networking (SDN) is being adopted by data
centers and cloud service providers to enable flexible control. Meanwhile, the current SDN …

Emerging data center architectures are becoming reconfigurable. While prior work has
shown the practical benefits of reconfigurable topologies, the underlying algorithmic …

Traditionally, networks such as datacenter interconnects are designed to optimize worst-
case performance under arbitrary traffic patterns. Such network designs can however be far …