Challenges in Extending Optical Fiber Transmission Bandwidth Beyond C+L Band and How to Get There

Henrique Buglia, Eric Sillekens, Anastasiia Vasylchenkova, Wenting Yi, Robert Killey, Polina Bayvel, Lídia Galdino

Network Comparison of C+L-Band Transparent Versus C-Band Translucent Upgrade

Rasoul Sadeghi, Bruno Correia, Emanuele Virgillito, Antonio Napoli, Nelson Costa, Joao Pedro, Vittorio Curri

Investigating the Impact of Hybrid Raman-EDFAs in the Cost and Energy Efficiency of C+L Wideband Optical Networks

Filippos Balasis, Noboru Yoshikane, Takehiro Tsuritani, Yuta Wakayama

Parameter Optimisation for Ultra-Wideband Optical Networks in the Presence of Stimulated Raman Scattering Effect

Sam Nallaperuma, Nikita Shevchenko, Seb Savory

Inter-Band GSNR Degradations and Leading Impairments in C+L Band 400G Transmission

Andrea D'Amico, Elliot London, Emanuele Virgillito, Antonio Napoli, Vittorio Curri

Ultra-Wideband Information Throughput Attained via Launch Power Allocation

Nikita Shevchenko, Sam Nallaperuma, Seb Savory

Go2Edge Intro

Ramón Durán Barroso, Ignacio de Miguel, David Larrabeiti

SD-WAN: How the Control of the Network Can Be Shifted from Core to Edge

Sebastian Troia, Ligia Maria Moreira Zorello, Guido Maier

Joint Planning of MEC and Fiber Deployment in Sparsely Populated Areas

Camilo Anzola-Rojas, Ramón Durán Barroso, Ignacio de Miguel, Noemí Merayo, Juan Carlos Aguado, Patricia Fernández, Rubén Lorenzo, Evaristo Abril

Optimal Virtual PON Slicing to Support Ultra-Low Latency Mesh Traffic Pattern in MEC-Based Cloud-RAN

Sandip Das, Marco Ruffini

Dimensioning Flex Ethernet Groups for the Transport of 5G NR Fronthaul Traffic in C-RAN Scenarios

José Alberto Hernández, Gabriel Otero Pérez, David Larrabeiti, Oscar González de Dios

Investigation on NOMA Based 60 GHz Radio-Over-Fiber Fronthaul Links

Christina Lim, Yijie Tao, Ampalavanapillai Nirmalathas

SDN-Based RAN Protection Solution for 5G, an Experimental Approach

Minqi Wang, Gael Simon, Isabel Amigo, Luiz Anet Neto, Loutfi Nuaymi, Philippe Chanclou

Trust-Less Virtual PON Sharing for 5G Services

Nima Afraz, Marco Ruffini

Load-Aware Optimal Association for 5G Mobile Users in HetNets with S-BVT Backhaul

Gabriel Otero Pérez, David Larrabeiti, José Alberto Hernández, Juan Pedro Fernández-Palacios, Ricardo Martinez, Michela Svaluto Moreolo

Specialty Fibers Exploiting Spatial Multiplexing for Signal Processing in Radio Access Networks

Mario Ureña, Rubén Guillem, Sabahat Shaheen, Sergi Garcia Cortijo, Elham Nazemosadat, Itandehui Gris-Sanchez, Ivana Gasulla

Adaptive Snapshot Routing Based on Space Debris Risk Perception in Satellite Optical Networks

Zhuangzhuang Ma, Yongli Zhao, Wei Wang, Xiangjun Xin, Jie Zhang

Wavelength Selective Photonic Integrated Switches for ROADM Node Functionality in Ultrahigh Capacity Metro Network

Netsanet Tessema, Giovanni Delrosso, Srivathsa Bhat, Kristif Prifti, Aref Rasoulzadehzali, Yu Wang, Timo Aalto, Ripalta Stabile, Nicola Calabretta

Blockchain-Based Connectivity Provisioning in Multiple Transport SDN Domains

Pol Alemany, Ricard Vilalta, Raul Muñoz, Ramon Casellas, Ricardo Martinez

Deploying PolKA Source Routing in P4 Switches

Cristina Klippel Dominicini, Rafael Guimaraes, Diego Mafioletti, Magnos Martinello, Moises Ribeiro, Rodolfo Villaca, Frédéric Loui, Jordi Ortiz, Frank Slyne, Marco Ruffini, Eoin Kenny

Mobility Aware Dynamic Resource Management in 5G Systems and Beyond

Anna Tzanakaki, Markos Anastasopoulos, Alexandros Manolopoulos, Dimitra Simeonidou

Orchestrating Virtualized Core Network Migration in OpenROADM SDN-Enabled Network

Shunmugapriya Ramanathan, Koteswararao Kondepu, Tianliang Zhang, Behzad Mirkhanzadeh, Miguel Razo, Marco Tacca, Luca Valcarenghi, Andrea Fumagalli

ODTN, Trellis and Stratum: A Seamless Packet-Optical Multi-Stage Datacenter Solution

Andrea Campanella, Brian O'Connor, Carmelo Cascone, Min-Cheng Chan, Pier Luigi Ventre, Maximilian Pudelko, Yi Tseng

Impairment-Aware Virtual Network Embedding Using Time Domain Hybrid Modulation Formats in Optical Networks

Farooq Shahzad, Ihtesham Khan, Muhammad Umar Masood, Arsalan Ahmad, Muhammad Imran, Marco Ruffini, Vittorio Curri

Evaluation of Lightpath Deployment Strategies in Flexible-Grid Optical Networks

Amir Varasteh, Sai Kireet Patri, Achim Autenrieth, Carmen Mas-Machuca

Spectrum Defragmentation with Improved Lightpath Migration Scheme in Flex-Grid Networks

Nguyễn Tuấn Khải, Ronald Romero Reyes, Thomas Bauschert

On the Benefits of Probabilistic Constellation Shaping in Flex-Grid/MCF Dynamic Optical Backbone Networks

Jordi Perelló, Joan Gene, Salvatore Spadaro

Multi-Band Environments for Optical Reinforcement Learning Gym for Resource Allocation in Elastic Optical Networks

Patricia Morales, Patricia Franco, Astrid Lozada, Nicolás Jara, Felipe Calderón, Juan Pinto-Ríos, Ariel Leiva

Enabling High Capacity Flexible Optical Networks

Fatima Garcia-Gunning, Amandeep Kaur, Natalia Cañas-Estrada, Julie Raulin, Yuliya Verbishchuk, Cormac Sreenan

Building a Dynamic Quantum Network: From Quantum Security to Quantum Internet

Reza Nejabati

On the Availability of the Decoy State BB84 QKD over a Terrestrial FSO Link

Argiris Ntanos, Dimitris Zavitsanos, Nikolaos Lyras, Giannis Giannoulis, Hercules Avramopoulos

The Future of Passive Optical Networks

Rene Bonk

Performance of PON Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation Algorithm for Meeting xHaul Transport Requirements

Samuel Edeagu, Rizwan Aslam Butt, Sevia Idrus, Nathan Gomes

Silicon Photonics Enabling 5G Optical Networks over PON Infrastructures

Leslie Rusch, Xun Guan, Wei Shi

Adapting the Classical Optical Communication Simulation Framework for Continuous-Variable Quantum Key Distribution Simulations

Essam Berikaa, Fabio Cavaliere, Jinsong Zhang, Ramon Gutierrez-Castrejon, Luca Giorgi, Antonio D'Errico, Stephane Lessard, David Plant

Softwarized and Autonomous Management of Photonic Switching Systems Using Machine Learning

Ihtesham Khan, Muhammad Umar Masood, Lorenzo Tunesi, Enrico Ghillino, Paolo Bardella, Andrea Carena, Vittorio Curri

Statistical Analysis of GSNR Fluctuations Due to Physical Layer Uncertainties

Giacomo Borraccini, Andrea D'Amico, Andrea Carena, Vittorio Curri

Network Topology Optimization for Optical Networks in Aircraft Using MILP

Bjoern Annighoefer, Adrian Zeyher, Johannes Reinhart

Optimization of Shared-Laser Coherent Transceiver for Short-Reach Links

Giuseppe Rizzelli, Roberto Gaudino

Exploration of Optical Signal QoT Margin with Intelligent WSS Filtering Penalty Estimator Using Neural Network

Tianliang Zhang, Mustafa Al-Qadi, Rongqing Hui, Andrea Fumagalli

A Resource Sharing Method for Reliable Slice as a Service Provisioning in 5G Metro Networks

Elisabetta Amato, Federico Tonini, Carla Raffaelli, Paolo Monti

Dynamic Selection of User Plane Function in 5G Environments

Viktoria-Maria Alevizaki, Markos Anastasopoulos, Anna Tzanakaki, Dimitra Simeonidou

Software-Defined Optical Intra-Rack Network Architecture and MAC Protocol for Data Centers

Peristera Baziana

Adaptive Link-By-Link Band Allocation: A Novel Adaptation Scheme in Multi-Band Optical Networks

Masahiro Nakagawa, Hiroki Kawahara, Takeshi Seki, Takashi Miyamura

Efficient Resource Allocation Scheme in Multi-User LiFi Networks Based on Angle Oriented Transceiver

Hossam A. I. Selmy, Hany El-Sayed, Rajia Badr, Hossien Eldeeb, Murat Uysal

Scalable Recursive First Fit: An Optimal Solution to the Spectrum Allocation Problem

George Rouskas, Chaitanya Bandikatla

Efficient Modeling of the Routing and Spectrum Allocation Problem for Flexgrid Optical Networks

Brigitte Jaumard, Quang Anh Nguyen

Multi-Band Provisioning in Dynamic Elastic Optical Networks: A Comparative Study of a Heuristic and a Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach

Nour El Din El Sheikh, Alejandra Beghelli, Juan Pinto-Ríos, Esteban Paz

Design and Performance Evaluation of Resilient Optical Path Networks That Adopt Spatially-Jointed Flexible Waveband Routing

Ryuji Munakata, Yojiro Mori, Suresh Subramaniam, Masahiko Jinno, Hiroshi Hasegawa

Usage of Graph Neural Network for Large-Scale Network Performance Evaluation

Cen Wang, Noboru Yoshikane, Takehiro Tsuritani

A Scalable Telemetry Framework for Zero Touch Optical Network Management

Luca Valcarenghi, Alessandro Pacini, Andrea Sgambelluri, Francesco Paolucci

Traffic Protection in Multilayer Core Networks by Optimum Thinning of MPLS Tunnel Capacities

Ronald Romero Reyes, Shkurte Esati, Thomas Bauschert

Minimum Disturbance Rerouting to Optimize Bandwidth Usage

Huy Duong, Brigitte Jaumard, David Coudert

On Short- and Long-Term Traffic Prediction in Optical Networks Using Machine Learning

Michal Aibin, Nathan Chung, Tyler Gordon, Liam Lyford, Connor Vinchoff

Optical Metro Network Design with Low Cost of Equipment

Oleg Karandin, Omran Ayoub, Memedhe Ibrahimi, Francesco Musumeci, Andrea Castoldi, Rosanna Pastorelli, Massimo Tornatore

Transmission-Aware Bandwidth Variable Transceiver Allocation in DWDM Optical Networks

Dmitry Khomchenko, Sai Kireet Patri, Achim Autenrieth, Carmen Mas-Machuca, Andre Richter

Point-To-Multipoint Coherent Optics for Re-Thinking the Optical Transport: Case Study in 5G Optical Metro Networks

Nina Skorin-Kapov, Francisco-Javier Moreno-Muro, Maria Victoria Bueno, Pablo Pavon-Marino

On the Impact of Billing Cycles on Compensations in Network SLAs

Tobias Enderle

Quantum Technologies for Future Quantum Optical Networks

Alberto Gatto, Juan Brito, Marco Brunero, Dileepsai Bodanapu, Rubén Méndez, Rafa Vicente, Paolo Comi, Vicente Martin, Paolo Martelli

Integration of QKD in WDM Networks

Paolo Martelli, Alberto Gatto, Marco Brunero, Dileepsai Bodanapu, Mariangela Rapisarda, Paolo Comi, Mario Martinelli