Flexgrid technology is now considered to be a promising solution for future high-speed
network design. In this context, we need a tutorial that covers the key aspects of elastic …

Orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) is a modulation technology that has
been widely adopted in many new and emerging broadband wireless and wireline …

Rigid fixed-grid wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) optical networks can no longer
keep up with the emerging bandwidth-hungry and highly dynamic services in an efficient …

The continual growth of Internet traffic necessitates a high-capacity transmission platform
and also highlights the importance of a multi-granularity transport network due to the flexible …

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 …

Spectrum elastic optical networks support flexible central frequency and spectrum
assignment for lightpaths. When provisioning a new connection in an elastic optical network …

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

We consider an elastic optical network and study the static routing and spectrum assignment
(RSA) problem aiming to minimize the maximum number of frequency slots required to …

Shared-Path Protection in OFDM-based Optical Networks with Elastic Bandwidth Allocation
Page 1 Shared-Path Protection in OFDM-based Optical Networks with Elastic Bandwidth …

The idea behind flexible optical transmission is to optimize the use of fiber capacity by
flexibly assigning spectrum and data rate adapted to the needs of end-to-end connection …