Migration-aware Network Services with Edge Computing

The development of Multi-access edge computing (MEC) has resulted from the requirement for supporting next generation mobile services, which need high capacity, high reliability and low latency. The key issue in such MEC architectures is to decide which edge nodes will be employed for serving the needs of the different end users. Here, we...

Topological Approach to Measure the Recoverability of Optical Networks

Optical networks are vulnerable to failures due to targeted attacks or large-scale disasters. The recoverability of optical networks refers to the ability of an optical network to return to a desired performance level after suffering topological perturbations such as link failures. This paper proposes a general topological approach and...

Online Survivability in Software Defined Elastic Optical Networks

With the high and varying demands for network bandwidth, Elastic Optical Networks (EON), as a promising solution for future optical transport networks, have been getting increased attention due to its flexibility and efficiency. As a huge amount of data is transformed over these networks, even short failures will lead to major data loss. Network...

Linearized Bregman Iterations for Automatic Optical Fiber Fault Analysis

Supervision of the physical layer of optical networks is an extremely relevant subject. To detect fiber faults, single-ended solutions, such as the optical time-domain reflectometry (OTDR), allow for precise measurements of fault profiles. Combining the OTDR with a signal processing approach for high-dimensional sparse parameter estimation...

Routing in Optical and Stochastic Networks

In most types of networks (e.g., optical or transportation networks), finding one or more best paths from a source to a destination, is one of the biggest concerns of network users and providers. This process is known as routing. The routing problems differ accordingly depending on different application scenarios with their respective routing...

Technology-aware multi-domain multi-layer routing

Transporting Big Data requires high-speed connections between end-hosts. Research and educational networks typically are state-of-the-art networks that facilitate such high-speed user-created network connections, possibly spanning multiple domains. However, there are many different high-speed optical data plane standards and implementations, and...

Survivability and Impairment-aware Routing in Optical Networks: An Algorithmic Study

Optical networks employing Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) technology allow the multiplexing of several independent wavelength channels into a fiber. Since each wavelength channel operates independently at several Gb/s, WDM optical networks offer a tremendous transport capacity (which is in the order of several Tb/s), which makes them...

Comparison of optical inter-domain routing protocols in the presence of wavelength converters

The success of optical technology has introduced a new future for the Internet. With the many advantages of optical technology, multimedia applications which require strict quality of service(QoS) are able to be guaranteed in an optical network. Unfortunately, the optical technology still have some limits in setting up a connection. One of these...