Survivability has already been an important research focus for the terrestrial optical network
(TON). Various survivability technologies such as the pre-configured structure scheme, the …

Resource crunch, ie, severe reduction of network resources caused by large-scale failures
or drastic traffic fluctuations, represents a crucial concern for network survivability. Under …

Disasters, such as earthquake, tsunami, tornado, and malicious attack, may cause large-
area, geographically correlated and/or cascading failures in telecom networks, leading to …

Optical data center networks (ODCNs) are constructed by connecting geographically
distributed data centers with optical networks. Due to the superiorities in computing and …

Flexible optical networks (FONs) are being adopted to accommodate the increasingly
heterogeneous traffic in today's Internet. However, in presence of high traffic load, not all …

Wavelength-division-multiplexing (WDM) optical networks as the most promising telecom
backbone are facing critical threaten from large-scale disasters, such as earthquake …