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...

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...