This paper surveys several applications of biased random-key genetic algorithms (BRKGA)
in optimization problems that arise in telecommunications. We first review the basic concepts …

With the ever-increasing traffic demands, the infrastructure of current 10 Gbit/s optical
network needs to be enhanced. The legacy infrastructure can be enhanced not only by …

We consider the following fundamental parallel machines scheduling problem in which the
input consists of n jobs to be scheduled on a set of identical machines of bounded capacity …

Even though elastic optical networks (EONs) are promising to provision increasingly
dynamic and heterogeneous traffic, the requirements on bandwidth-variable optical devices …

In an optical network a signal can only travel a maximum distance d max before its quality
deteriorates to the point that it must be regenerated by installing regenerators at nodes of the …

We consider the following online scheduling problem in which the input consists of n jobs to
be scheduled on identical machines of bounded capacity g (the maximum number of jobs …

In this study, we introduce the regenerator location problem in flexible optical networks. With
a given traffic demand, the regenerator location problem in flexible optical networks …

We consider a dynamic lightpath provisioning problem in translucent spectrally–spatially
flexible optical networks (SS-FONs) in which flexible signal regeneration is achieved with …

In all-optical WDM networks, feasibility of a lightpath are determined by physical layer
impairment accumulation. Physical layer impairment-aware routing and wavelength …

Telecommunication systems use optical signals to transmit information. The strength of a
signal in an optical network deteriorates and loses power as it goes farther from the source …