Abstract--Power-awareness in networking attracts more attention as the trends in the energy consumption of the Internet raise growing concerns about the environmental impacts and s...
One of the major concerns in optical networks is the bandwidth underutilization problem. In fact, as WDM technology keeps maturing, there is a bandwidth gap between the transmissi...
Abstract--We present a novel approach for joint optical network provisioning and Internet protocol (IP) traffic engineering, in which the IP and optical networks collaboratively op...