Optical Networks for Communications
A special issue of Photonics (ISSN 2304-6732).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 January 2017) | Viewed by 70815
Special Issue Editor
Interests: microwave photonics; ultra-fast optical communications; photonic digital processing and nonlinear optics
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue of Optics will focus on new research results and practical solutions in the field of “Optical Networks for Communications”. As the demand for Internet traffic and bandwidth continue to increase, the optical technology devoted to expanding communication networks is expected to expand to meet new capacities, reach, and networking challenges. Many aspects need to be explored, such as scalability, flexibility, resiliency, quality of service, security, energy efficiency, cost-effectiveness, inter-operability, and/or support of other network types.
This Special Issue of Optics covers a large scope of research in optical networking and communications, and solicits contributions in, but not limited to:
Optical transport networks
Protection and restoration in optical networks
Design and performance evaluation of Optical network architectures
Optical switching, devices and architectures
Data center networks
Optical Access Networks, FTTx
Optical and Mobile Convergence
Free-space optical communication
Optical Packet, Burst, and Flow Switching
Failure monitoring and localization
Protection and restoration in optical networks
Elastic optical networks
Optical network security
Energy-efficient optical networks and systems
Support to grid and cloud computing
Radio over fiber
Convergence of optical and wireless networks
Dr. Antonella Bogoni
Guest Editor
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