The objective of this chapter is to promote the bee colony optimization (BCO) algorithm as a
simple and effective metaheuristic method. BCO is a stochastic, random-search population …

The study of online routing and spectrum allocation (RSA) problem has assumed increasing
importance due to the exponential growth of dynamic traffic with uncertainty in elastic optical …

Routing and wavelength assignment (RWA) determine the quality of service (QoS) such as
blocking probability and delay in wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) satellite optical …

Abstract The Min Slot-Continuity Capacity Loss (MSCL) algorithm is listed in the literature as
a powerful algorithm to solve the spectrum assignment (SA) problem in elastic optical …

The concept of elasticity has been proposed in the design of next generation optical
networks in tackling the problem of efficient utilization of network resources and increasing …

Flexible optical network architectures are considered a very promising solution where
spectrum resources are allocated within flexible frequency grids. This paper presents a …

Contemporary society relies on fast and reliable transfer of information, leading to ever-
increasing size of transmitted data that stimulates the development of new algorithms for …

We use a genetic algorithm (GA) as a design aid for determining the optimal provisioning of
entangled photon spectrum in flex-grid quantum networks with arbitrary numbers of …

The recent decade has witnessed a tremendous growth of Internet traffic, which is expected
to continue climbing for the foreseeable future. As a new paradigm, Spectrum-sliced Elastic …

In this paper, we consider an NP-hard, real-world optimization problem from the field of
computer networks. The problem refers to the network survivability and may be considered …