Virtual Feature Issue

Introduction to the OFC 2017 Special Issue

Ori Gerstel and Pat Iannone

J. Opt. Commun. Netw. 10(1), OFC1-OFC1 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Mobile Fronthaul Architecture and Technologies: A RAN Equipment Assessment [Invited]

P. Chanclou, L. Anet Neto, K. Grzybowski, Z. Tayq, F. Saliou, and N. Genay

J. Opt. Commun. Netw. 10(1), A1-A7 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Fast Parallel Lightpath Re-Optimization for Space-Division Multiplexing Optical Networks Based on Time Synchronization

Ruijie Luo, Nan Hua, Xiaoping Zheng, and Bingkun Zhou

J. Opt. Commun. Netw. 10(1), A8-A19 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Low-Latency High-Efficiency Mobile Fronthaul With TDM-PON (Mobile-PON)

Siyu Zhou, Xiang Liu, Frank Effenberger, and Jonathan Chao

J. Opt. Commun. Netw. 10(1), A20-A26 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Soft Failure Localization During Commissioning Testing and Lightpath Operation

A. P. Vela, B. Shariati, M. Ruiz, F. Cugini, A. Castro, H. Lu, R. Proietti, J. Comellas, P. Castoldi, S. J. B. Yoo, and L. Velasco

J. Opt. Commun. Netw. 10(1), A27-A36 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Technologies for Convergence of Fixed and Mobile Access: An Operator’s Perspective [Invited]

Carsten Behrens, Sandro Krauß, Erik Weis, and Dirk Breuer

J. Opt. Commun. Netw. 10(1), A37-A42 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

QoS-Aware Protection in Flexgrid Optical Networks

Patricia Layec, Arnaud Dupas, Arnaud Bisson, and Sébastien Bigo

J. Opt. Commun. Netw. 10(1), A43-A50 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Experimental Validation of Time-Synchronized Operations for Software-Defined Elastic Optical Networks

Anderson Bravalheri, Miquel Garrich Alabarce, Abubakar Siddique Muqaddas, Paolo Giaccone, and Andrea Bianco

J. Opt. Commun. Netw. 10(1), A51-A59 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

On the Impact of Deploying Optical Transport Networks Using Disaggregated Line Systems

João Santos, Nelson Costa, and João Pedro

J. Opt. Commun. Netw. 10(1), A60-A68 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Power Excursion Mitigation for Flexgrid Defragmentation With Machine Learning

Yishen Huang, Patricia B. Cho, Payman Samadi, and Keren Bergman

J. Opt. Commun. Netw. 10(1), A69-A76 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Dynamic Slicing Approach for Multi-Tenant 5G Transport Networks [Invited]

Muhammad Rehan Raza, Matteo Fiorani, Ahmad Rostami, Peter Öhlen, Lena Wosinska, and Paolo Monti

J. Opt. Commun. Netw. 10(1), A77-A90 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Enhancing Protection Performance by Effectively Using Spectral Slots of Impairment-Aware Elastic Optical Networks [Invited]

Hitoshi Takeshita, Takefumi Oguma, Shinsuke Fujisawa, Yuta Suzuki, Baku Yatabe, Akio Tajima, Hiroshi Hasegawa, and Ken-ichi Sato

J. Opt. Commun. Netw. 10(1), A91-A101 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Accurate Prediction of Quality of Transmission Based on a Dynamically Configurable Optical Impairment Model

Martin Bouda, Shoichiro Oda, Olga Vassilieva, Masatake Miyabe, Setsuo Yoshida, Toru Katagiri, Yasuhiko Aoki, Takeshi Hoshida, and Tadashi Ikeuchi

J. Opt. Commun. Netw. 10(1), A102-A109 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Optical Physical Layer SDN [Invited]

Yao Li and Daniel C. Kilper

J. Opt. Commun. Netw. 10(1), A110-A121 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

On the Cross-Layer Orchestration to Address IP Router Outages With Cost-Efficient Multilayer Restoration in IP-Over-EONs

Siqi Liu, Wei Lu, and Zuqing Zhu

J. Opt. Commun. Netw. 10(1), A122-A132 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

On the Efficiency of Flexible Ethernet Client Architectures in Optical Transport Networks [Invited]

António Eira, André Pereira, João Pires, and João Pedro

J. Opt. Commun. Netw. 10(1), A133-A143 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Multi-Period Planning With Actual Physical and Traffic Conditions

P. Soumplis, K. Christodoulopoulos, M. Quagliotti, A. Pagano, and E. Varvarigos

J. Opt. Commun. Netw. 10(1), A144-A153 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Cross-Layer Adaptive Elastic Optical Networks

Ippokratis Sartzetakis, Konstantinos Christodoulopoulos, and Emmanuel Varvarigos

J. Opt. Commun. Netw. 10(2), A154-A164 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Analysis and Demonstration of Network Utilization Improvement Through Format-Agnostic Multi-Channel Wavelength Converters

Kiyo Ishii, Takashi Inoue, Inwoong Kim, Xi Wang, Hung Nguyen Tan, Qiong Zhang, Tadashi Ikeuchi, and Shu Namiki

J. Opt. Commun. Netw. 10(2), A165-A174 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Multicore Fibers for High-Capacity Submarine Transmission Systems

Md. Nooruzzaman and Toshio Morioka

J. Opt. Commun. Netw. 10(2), A175-A184 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Design of Global Submarine Networks [Invited]

Lara D. Garrett

J. Opt. Commun. Netw. 10(2), A185-A195 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Routing and Regenerator Planning in a Carrier’s Core Reconfigurable Optical Network

Balagangadhar G. Bathula, Rakesh K. Sinha, Angela L. Chiu, and Sheryl L. Woodward

J. Opt. Commun. Netw. 10(2), A196-A205 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Build to Tenants’ Requirements: On-Demand Application-Driven vSD-EON Slicing

Zuqing Zhu, Bingxin Kong, Jie Yin, Sicheng Zhao, and Shengru Li

J. Opt. Commun. Netw. 10(2), A206-A215 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Toward Transport Ecosystem Interoperability Enabled by Vendor-Diverse Coherent Optical Sources Over an Open Line System

Mark Filer, Hacene Chaouch, and Xiaoxia Wu

J. Opt. Commun. Netw. 10(2), A216-A224 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Autonomous Network and IT Resource Management for Geographically Distributed Data Centers

Yiwen Shen, Payman Samadi, and Keren Bergman

J. Opt. Commun. Netw. 10(2), A225-A231 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Leveraging Mixed-Strategy Gaming to Realize Incentive-Driven VNF Service Chain Provisioning in Broker-Based Elastic Optical Inter-Datacenter Networks

Xiaoliang Chen, Zuqing Zhu, Jiannan Guo, Sheng Kang, Roberto Proietti, Alberto Castro, and S. J. B. Yoo

J. Opt. Commun. Netw. 10(2), A232-A240 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Control Plane Architectures for Elastic Optical Networks [Invited]

Víctor López, Rodrigo Jiménez, Óscar González de Dios, and Juan Pedro Fernández-Palacios

J. Opt. Commun. Netw. 10(2), A241-A249 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

GreenTouch GreenMeter Core Network Energy-Efficiency Improvement Measures and Optimization

J. M. H. Elmirghani, T. Klein, K. Hinton, L. Nonde, A. Q. Lawey, T. E. H. El-Gorashi, M. O. I. Musa, and X. Dong

J. Opt. Commun. Netw. 10(2), A250-A269 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Optically Disaggregated Data Centers With Minimal Remote Memory Latency: Technologies, Architectures, and Resource Allocation [Invited]

Georgios Zervas, Hui Yuan, Arsalan Saljoghei, Qianqiao Chen, and Vaibhawa Mishra

J. Opt. Commun. Netw. 10(2), A270-A285 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Machine-Learning Method for Quality of Transmission Prediction of Unestablished Lightpaths

Cristina Rottondi, Luca Barletta, Alessandro Giusti, and Massimo Tornatore

J. Opt. Commun. Netw. 10(2), A286-A297 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Learning Process for Reducing Uncertainties on Network Parameters and Design Margins

E. Seve, J. Pesic, C. Delezoide, S. Bigo, and Y. Pointurier

J. Opt. Commun. Netw. 10(2), A298-A306 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF