Multi-step migration of optical connections to minimize disruption time in flex-grid networks
Migration of optical connections in flex-grid networks has become increasingly necessary as the arrivals and departures of optical ... (Source: Journal of Optical Communications and Networking)
Source: Journal of Optical Communications and Networking - September 26, 2022 Category: Physics Authors: Tu?n Kh?i Nguy?n Ronald Romero Reyes Thomas Bauschert Source Type: research

Accelerating model synchronization for distributed machine learning in an optical wide area network
Geo-distributed machine learning (Geo-DML) adopts a hierarchical training architecture that includes local model synchronization within the ... (Source: Journal of Optical Communications and Networking)
Source: Journal of Optical Communications and Networking - September 26, 2022 Category: Physics Authors: Ling Liu Liangjun Song Xi Chen Hongfang Yu Gang Sun Source Type: research

On the performance of a hybrid frequency – phase-keying-based MIMO hybrid RF/FSO communication link
A hybrid technique in optical wireless communications is an effective solution to counter impairments and to improve link availability. In ... (Source: Journal of Optical Communications and Networking)
Source: Journal of Optical Communications and Networking - September 22, 2022 Category: Physics Authors: Suman Malik Yeon Ho Chung Prasant Kumar Sahu Source Type: research

Edge-enhanced graph neural network for DU-CU placement and lightpath provision in X-Haul networks
The emerging mobile services have imposed several new challenges on the radio access network (RAN), which stimulates its evolution from ... (Source: Journal of Optical Communications and Networking)
Source: Journal of Optical Communications and Networking - September 16, 2022 Category: Physics Authors: Ruikun Wang Jiawei Zhang Zhiqun Gu Shuangyi Yan Yuming Xiao Yuefeng Ji Source Type: research

STAR: a carrier sense agnostic MAC scheme for a crowded NLoS-FSOC optical LAN
Nondirect line-of-sight free-space optical communications (NLoS-FSOC) operate based on an optical wireless broadcast channel shared by ... (Source: Journal of Optical Communications and Networking)
Source: Journal of Optical Communications and Networking - September 16, 2022 Category: Physics Authors: Paa Kwesi Esubonteng Hieu Pham Trung Nguyen Roberto Rojas-Cessa Source Type: research

Topology configuration scheme for accelerating coflows in a hyper-FleX-LION
To address the challenges that data center networks (DCNs) are currently facing, optical circuit switching in DCNs has been introduced and ... (Source: Journal of Optical Communications and Networking)
Source: Journal of Optical Communications and Networking - September 13, 2022 Category: Physics Authors: Hao Yang Zuqing Zhu Source Type: research

Static multi-sourced data retrieval in elastic optical networks
Extreme-scale science applications are highly innovative and constantly evolving. They are expected to generate data in the petabyte and ... (Source: Journal of Optical Communications and Networking)
Source: Journal of Optical Communications and Networking - September 13, 2022 Category: Physics Authors: Juzi Zhao Vinod M. Vokkarane Source Type: research

Hybrid 3DMA for multi-user MIMO-VLC
In this paper, we propose and investigate a hybrid three-dimensional multiple access (3DMA) scheme for multi-user multiple-input ... (Source: Journal of Optical Communications and Networking)
Source: Journal of Optical Communications and Networking - September 9, 2022 Category: Physics Authors: Chen Chen Ruochen Zhang Wanli Wen Min Liu Pengfei Du Yanbing Yang Xiukai Ruan Source Type: research

Exclusion zone analysis on secret key distillation over a realistic satellite-to-satellite free-space channel
Quantum cryptography is the study of unconditional information security against an all-powerful eavesdropper in secret key distillation. ... (Source: Journal of Optical Communications and Networking)
Source: Journal of Optical Communications and Networking - September 9, 2022 Category: Physics Authors: Ziwen Pan Ivan B. Djordjevic Source Type: research

Delay-aware and resource-efficient service function chain mapping in inter-datacenter elastic optical networks
Network function virtualization (NFV) is emerging as a promising paradigm for network architectures. By migrating network functions from ... (Source: Journal of Optical Communications and Networking)
Source: Journal of Optical Communications and Networking - September 3, 2022 Category: Physics Authors: Min Zhu Jiahua Gu Tianyu Shen Jiao Zhang Pingping Gu Source Type: research

Network upgrade exploiting multi band: S- or E-band?
Nowadays, the fiber spectrum is only partially exploited, i.e., mainly in the C-band and more recently in the C + L-band, where the fiber ... (Source: Journal of Optical Communications and Networking)
Source: Journal of Optical Communications and Networking - August 29, 2022 Category: Physics Authors: Nicola Sambo Bruno Correia Antonio Napoli Jo ã o Pedro Leily Kiani Piero Castoldi Vittorio Curri Source Type: research

Techniques for applying reinforcement learning to routing and wavelength assignment problems in optical fiber communication networks
We propose a novel application of reinforcement learning (RL) with invalid action masking and a novel training methodology for routing and ... (Source: Journal of Optical Communications and Networking)
Source: Journal of Optical Communications and Networking - August 19, 2022 Category: Physics Authors: Josh W. Nevin Sam Nallaperuma Nikita A. Shevchenko Zacharaya Shabka Georgios Zervas Seb J. Savory Source Type: research

Performance of improved mode diversity reception for free-space optical communication under atmospheric turbulence
This paper first proposes and verifies two simplified mode diversity receivers (MDRs) for free-space optical (FSO) communication systems ... (Source: Journal of Optical Communications and Networking)
Source: Journal of Optical Communications and Networking - August 15, 2022 Category: Physics Authors: Feng Wang Cong Qiu Yue Chen Guijun Hu Source Type: research

Performance of rectangular QAM/FSO communication systems in the anisotropic non-Kolmogorov ground-to-satellite uplink
Quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) is an exciting technology to accomplish a high communication data rate without increasing the system ... (Source: Journal of Optical Communications and Networking)
Source: Journal of Optical Communications and Networking - August 11, 2022 Category: Physics Authors: Chao Zhai Source Type: research

ReSAW: a reconfigurable and picosecond-synchronized optical data center network based on an AWGR and the WR protocol
The explosive growth of data center (DC) traffic imposes unprecedented challenges on the current electrical switch-based data center ... (Source: Journal of Optical Communications and Networking)
Source: Journal of Optical Communications and Networking - August 11, 2022 Category: Physics Authors: Zuoqing Zhao Xuwei Xue Bingli Guo Yisong Zhao Xinwei Zhang Yuanzhi Guo Wei Ji Rui Yin Bin Chen Shanguo Huang Source Type: research