A detailed survey of approaches reducing energy consumption of core networks is
presented in this paper. We consider a multilayer architecture, in which the optical layer can …

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

Elastic optical networks (EONs) have been receiving extensive attention because of their
inherent flexibility and the efficiency with which they allocate fiber-bandwidth. For an EON …

Elastic optical network (EON) architectures have been recently proposed as a candidate
solution for provisioning of both huge bandwidth and flexible connections in next generation …

Energy consumption efficiency during resource allocation is crucial for large scale networks.
The evolution of space division multiplexing elastic optical networks (SDM-EONs) has …

Elastic optical networks technologies feature several benefits including higher spectral
efficiency, system capacity and therefore have been widely viewed as the promising …

In this paper, we investigate power-efficient directed preconfigured cycles (p-Cycles) for
asymmetric traffic protection in elastic optical networks (EONs) against single link failure …

Fast recovery and minimum utilization of resources are the two main criteria for determining
the protection scheme quality. We address the problem of providing a hybrid protection …

Network coding (NC) is a revolutionary technique that fundamentally changes the traditional
operations of networks to achieve better performance thanks to the excellent feature of in …

Elastic optical networks have recently emerged as one of the most promising technologies
for creating next-generation optical core networks thanks to the adaptive spectrum allocation …