Introduction to the OFC/NFOEC 2012 Special Issue

Keren Bergman and Ori Gerstel

J. Opt. Commun. Netw. 4(11), OFC1-OFC1 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

GMPLS/PCE Control of Flexi-Grid DWDM Optical Networks Using CO-OFDM Transmission [Invited]

Ramon Casellas, Raül Muñoz, Josep M. Fàbrega, Michela Svaluto Moreolo, Ricardo Martínez, Lei Liu, Takehiro Tsuritani, and Itsuro Morita

J. Opt. Commun. Netw. 4(11), B1-B10 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Efficiency of Adaptive and Mixed-Line-Rate IP Over DWDM Networks Regarding CAPEX and Power Consumption [Invited]

Axel Klekamp, Ulrich Gebhard, and Frank Ilchmann

J. Opt. Commun. Netw. 4(11), B11-B16 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Optical Traffic Grooming in OFDM-Based Elastic Optical Networks [Invited]

Guoying Zhang, Marc De Leenheer, and Biswanath Mukherjee

J. Opt. Commun. Netw. 4(11), B17-B25 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Evaluations of OXC Hardware Scale and Network Resource Requirements of Different Optical Path Add/Drop Ratio Restriction Schemes [Invited]

Fumisato Naruse, Yoshiyuki Yamada, Hiroshi Hasegawa, and Ken-ichi Sato

J. Opt. Commun. Netw. 4(11), B26-B34 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Coherent 100G Field Trial Over Installed Fiber Links: Investigating Key Network Scenarios and Applications [Invited]

Yu Rong Zhou, Kevin Smith, Mark Wilkinson, Roger Payne, Andrew Lord, Tex Bennett, and Michael Frankel

J. Opt. Commun. Netw. 4(11), B35-B41 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Quantifying Spectrum, Cost, and Energy Efficiency in Fixed-Grid and Flex-Grid Networks [Invited]

E. Palkopoulou, M. Angelou, D. Klonidis, K. Christodoulopoulos, A. Klekamp, F. Buchali, E. Varvarigos, and I. Tomkos

J. Opt. Commun. Netw. 4(11), B42-B51 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

On Shared Risk Link Group Optimization [Invited]

Guangzhi Li, Dongmei Wang, Timothy Gallivan, and Robert Doverspike

J. Opt. Commun. Netw. 4(11), B52-B57 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Impact of ROADM Colorless, Directionless, and Contentionless (CDC) Features on Optical Network Performance [Invited]

Yongcheng Li, Li Gao, Gangxiang Shen, and Limei Peng

J. Opt. Commun. Netw. 4(11), B58-B67 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Experiments on a 10 Gb/s Fast-Settling High-Sensitivity Burst-Mode Receiver With On-Chip Auto-Reset for 10G-GPONs [Invited]

Xin Yin, Xing-Zhi Qiu, Jan Gillis, Jasmien Put, Jochen Verbrugghe, Johan Bauwelinck, Jan Vandewege, Heinz Krimmel, Dora van Veen, Peter Vetter, and Frank Chang

J. Opt. Commun. Netw. 4(11), B68-B76 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

40 Gb/s Operation of SOA-REAM in Single-Feeder WDM-PON [Invited]

Qi Guo and An V. Tran

J. Opt. Commun. Netw. 4(11), B77-B84 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Experimental Study on OSNR Requirements for Spectrum-Flexible Optical Networks [Invited]

Robert Borkowski, Fotini Karinou, Marianna Angelou, Valeria Arlunno, Darko Zibar, Dimitrios Klonidis, Neil Guerrero Gonzalez, Antonio Caballero, Ioannis Tomkos, and Idelfonso Tafur Monroy

J. Opt. Commun. Netw. 4(11), B85-B93 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Comparison of DSB and SSB Transmission for OFDM-PON [Invited]

Bangjiang Lin, Juhao Li, Hui Yang, Yangsha Wan, Yongqi He, and Zhangyuan Chen

J. Opt. Commun. Netw. 4(11), B94-B100 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Designing an Energy-Efficient Cloud Network [Invited]

Burak Kantarci and Hussein T. Mouftah

J. Opt. Commun. Netw. 4(11), B101-B113 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Ultra-Low-Power 10 to 28.5 Gb/s CMOS-Driven VCSEL-Based Optical Links [Invited]

Jonathan E. Proesel, Benjamin G. Lee, Alexander V. Rylyakov, Christian W. Baks, and Clint L. Schow

J. Opt. Commun. Netw. 4(11), B114-B123 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Passive-Optical-Network- (PON-) Based Converged Access Network [Invited]

Rajesh Yadav

J. Opt. Commun. Netw. 4(11), B124-B130 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

A Robust Real-Time 100G Transceiver With Soft-Decision Forward Error Correction [Invited]

Lynn E. Nelson, Guodong Zhang, Martin Birk, Craig Skolnick, Rejoy Isaac, Y. Pan, Christian Rasmussen, Graeme Pendock, and Benny Mikkelsen

J. Opt. Commun. Netw. 4(11), B131-B141 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Impact of Add/Drop Port Utilization Flexibility in DWDM Networks [Invited]

João Pedro and Sílvia Pato

J. Opt. Commun. Netw. 4(11), B142-B150 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Resilient Optically Connected Memory Systems Using Dynamic Bit-Steering [Invited]

Daniel Brunina, Caroline P. Lai, Dawei Liu, Ajay S. Garg, and Keren Bergman

J. Opt. Commun. Netw. 4(11), B151-B160 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Transmission of a 127 Gb/s PM-QPSK Signal Over a 3350 km SMF-Only Line With Chromatic Dispersion Compensation Using Real-Time DSP [Invited]

Manabu Arikawa, Takeshi Okamoto, Mitsunori Muraki, Daisaku Ogasahara, Emmanuel Le Taillandier de Gabory, Toshiharu Ito, and Kiyoshi Fukuchi

J. Opt. Commun. Netw. 4(11), B161-B167 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Anycast-Based Optimizations for Inter-Data-Center Interconnections [Invited]

Molka Gharbaoui, Barbara Martini, and Piero Castoldi

J. Opt. Commun. Netw. 4(11), B168-B178 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Transient Link Control Technique Applied to Optical Hybrid Amplifier (EDFA + DFRA) Cascades

Bárbara Dumas and Ricardo Olivares

J. Opt. Commun. Netw. 4(11), 858-864 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

LED Nonlinearity Mitigation Techniques in Optical Wireless OFDM Communication Systems

Raed Mesleh, Hany Elgala, and Harald Haas

J. Opt. Commun. Netw. 4(11), 865-875 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Domain Sequence Protocol (DSP) for PCE-Based Multi-Domain Traffic Engineering

Domenico Siracusa, Stefano Grita, Guido Maier, Achille Pattavina, Francesco Paolucci, Filippo Cugini, and Piero Castoldi

J. Opt. Commun. Netw. 4(11), 876-884 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

4-PAM for High-Speed Short-Range Optical Communications

Krzysztof Szczerba, Petter Westbergh, Johnny Karout, Johan S. Gustavsson, Åsa Haglund, Magnus Karlsson, Peter A. Andrekson, Erik Agrell, and Anders Larsson

J. Opt. Commun. Netw. 4(11), 885-894 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Network Energy Efficiency Gains Through Coordinated Cross-Layer Aggregation and Bypass

Michael Z. Feng, Kerry Hinton, Robert Ayre, and Rodney S. Tucker

J. Opt. Commun. Netw. 4(11), 895-905 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Towards Elastic and Fine-Granular Bandwidth Allocation in Spectrum-Sliced Optical Networks

Yang Wang, Xiaojun Cao, Qian Hu, and Yi Pan

J. Opt. Commun. Netw. 4(11), 906-917 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Multicast Traffic Grooming in Tap-and-Continue WDM Mesh Networks

Rongping Lin, Wen-De Zhong, Sanjay Kumar Bose, and Moshe Zukerman

J. Opt. Commun. Netw. 4(11), 918-935 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Resource Optimization of Consolidating Two Coexisting Networks With Interconnections

Zhenchang Xie and Lian-Kuan Chen

J. Opt. Commun. Netw. 4(11), 936-946 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF