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...
— Wavelength routed optical networks allow to design a logical topology, comprising lightpaths and routers, which is overlayed on the physical topology, comprising optical fiber...
Marco Mellia, Emilio Leonardi, Marco Feletig, Robe...
Packet-switching WDM ring networks with a hotspot transporting unicast, multicast, and broadcast trac are important components of high-speed metropolitan area networks. For an arbi...
Matthias an der Heiden, Michel Sortais, Michael Sc...
Abstract-- We propose a framework for decentralized path selection and on-demand wavelength channel provisioning in WDM networks with routing constraints. Within this framework, th...
—In layered networks, a single failure at a lower layer may cause multiple failures in the upper layers. As a result, traditional schemes that protect against single failures may...