Intelligent process automation and business continuity: Areas for future research

J Brás, R Pereira, S Moro - Information, 2023 - mdpi.com
Robotic process automation and intelligent process automation have gained a foothold in
the automation of business processes, using blocks of software (bots). These agents interact …

A review of self-coherent optical transceivers: fundamental issues, recent advances, and research directions

I Alimi, R Patel, N Silva, C Sun, H Ji, W Shieh, A Pinto… - Applied Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
This paper reviews recent progress on different high-speed optical short-and medium-reach
transmission systems. Furthermore, a comprehensive tutorial on high-performance, low-cost …

Capacity scaling in metro-regional aggregation networks: the multiband S-BVT

L Nadal, R Casellas, JM Fàbrega… - Journal of Optical …, 2023 - opg.optica.org
New technological advancements and solutions should be investigated to overcome the
stringent performance and societal requirements that 6G networks will pose in terms of …

Programmable VCSEL-based photonic system architecture for future agile Tb/s metro networks

MS Moreolo, JM Fabrega, L Nadal… - Journal of Optical …, 2021 - opg.optica.org
To deal with the challenging requirements of metropolitan area networks (MANs), it is
essential to design cost-effective systems that can support high capacity and dynamic …

Advanced optical transceiver and switching solutions for next-generation optical networks

L Nadal, R Martínez, M Ali, FJ Vílchez… - Journal of Optical …, 2024 - opg.optica.org
Innovative transceiver and switching approaches should be explored with special focus on
flexibility, energy efficiency, sustainability, and interoperability to be adopted on next …

SDN-enabled S-BVT for disaggregated networks: design, implementation and cost analysis

L Nadal, MS Moreolo, JA Hernández… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Software-defined networking (SDN) and disaggregation are key technologies to fulfill the
requirements of 5G and beyond optical metro networks. Indeed, open networking solutions …

Photonic device programmability in support of autonomous optical networks

R Casellas, L Nadal, R Martinez, R Vilalta… - Journal of Optical …, 2024 - opg.optica.org
The emergence and consolidation of increasingly programmable optical devices such as
transceivers, amplifiers, multiplexers, or ROADMs—which allow their remote configuration …

Experimental demonstration of a metro area network with terabit-capable sliceable bit-rate-variable transceivers using directly modulated VCSELs and coherent …

JM Fabrega, FJ Vilchez, MS Moreolo… - Journal of Optical …, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Disaggregation in optical networks is particularly relevant to be considered for the
deployment of 5G services and towards the support of 6G. Particularly in the metro area …

All-optical aggregation and distribution of traffic in large metropolitan area networks using multi-Tb/s S-BVTs

M Rapisarda, JA Hernández, A Gatto… - Journal of Optical …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
Current metropolitan area network architectures are based on a number of hierarchical
levels that aggregate traffic toward the core at the IP layer. In this setting, routers are …

SDN-enabled sliceable transceivers in disaggregated optical networks

L Nadal, JM Fabrega, MS Moreolo… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2019 - opg.optica.org
We design and implement programmable (SDN-enabled) sliceable bandwidth/bitrate
variable transceivers (S-BVTs) based on multicarrier modulation (MCM) with direct detection …