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 …

The interconnection of all things is developing a new diagram of future information networks.
However, it is difficult to realize future applications with only one single technique …

Cloud-fog computing emerges to satisfy the low latency and high computation requirements
of Internet of Things (IoT) services. Elastic optical networks (EONs) are excellent substrate …

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 …

Based on the concept of infrastructure as a service, optical network virtualization can
improve the efficiency of network infrastructure by sharing the physical substrate network …

With the rapid development of information and communication technology (ICT), the demand
for flexible and cost-effective network services (NSs) is growing exponentially. Network …

Network virtualization is meant to improve the efficiency of network infrastructure by sharing
a physical substrate network among multiple virtual networks. Virtual network embedding …

Due to the development of broadband access technologies including FTTx and 5G, the
traffic in metro and core networks is forecasted to be more dynamic. To support this …

Network virtualization has been widely considered to improve the resource efficiency of
network infrastructure by allowing multiple virtual networks to coexist on a shared substrate …

With the growth in data volume and latency-sensitive applications, fog computing micro
datacenters (FC-mDC) have been proposed as a promising solution. The FC-mDC locally …