— As an optical signal propagates along a lightpath to its destination in distributed wavelength-routed optical networks, the signal’s quality is degraded by transmission impai...
Trust networks consist of transitive trust relationships between people, organisations and software agents connected through a medium for communication and interaction. By formali...
Internal switches in all-photonic networks do not perform data conversion into the electronic domain, thereby eliminating a potential capacity bottleneck, but the inability to per...
—The central paradigm of today’s successful Internet is to keep the network core simple and move complexity towards the network end points. Unfortunately, this very paradigm li...
Abstract. Recent developments in computer and communication networks require scheduling decisions to be made under increasingly complex system dynamics. We model and analyze the pr...