The unprecedented growth of the global Internet traffic, coupled with the large spatio-
temporal fluctuations that create, to some extent, predictable tidal traffic conditions, are …

The ongoing roll-out of cloud–edge computing and Internet of Things (IoT) has been
simulating the boom of new advance reservation (AR) services, such as bulk-data migration …

The flex-grid technology or elastic optical network (EON) is accepted to be a propitious
solution for the future transport network due to its unique properties, which are bandwidth …

The rapid growth in communications and internet has changed our way of life, and our
requirement for communication bandwidth. Optical networks can enable us to meet the …

For optical networks, routing and resource allocation which considerably determines the
resource efficiency and network capacity is one of the most important works. It has been …

Elastic optical networks employing multi-core fibers (MCF-EON) have the potential to
expand significantly the transmission capacity of optical transport. However, wide …

We focus on the problem of crosstalk-aware lightpath provisioning in a dynamic, spectrally
and spatially flexible optical network, in which spectral super-channels are carried over multi …

An innovative technology to expand transmission capacity of optical backbone networks and
to add flexibility to conventional WDM networks is Elastic Optical Networks with Space …

Spectrally-spatially elastic optical networks (SS-EONs) have been considered nowadays to
overcome the physical barrier and enhance the transport capacity, where enhancing …

Space division multiplexing (SDM) and band division multiplexing (BDM) are considered
promising technologies to increase the capacity of optical transport networks. The …