A highly-scalable access architecture achieving high-user-density and enabling resiliency, centralized light-generation control, remote amplification and colorless ONU with Reflective Semiconductor Optical Amplifier (RSOA) is presented as the bridge between the already deployed Fiber-to-theHome infrastructures and the advanced optical access networks. A technoeconomical comparison of these opti...

In this paper, we propose a novel algorithm to restore calls upon a single failure in transparent optical networks. After a failure, the proposed algorithm performs a path restoration searching for the route which presents the higher optical signal-to-noise ratio. We compared our proposal to three other well known approaches in the literature. We achieved lower failure rates in the restoration ...

Passive optical networks (PONs) represent a promising solution for modern access telecommunication networks. These networks are able to meet the increasing demands on transmission rate for demanding multimedia services, while they can offer typical shared transmission speed of 1.25 or 2.5 Gbps. The major role in deploying optical distribution networks ODNs plays the maximum attenuable loss, whi...

Alongside the spread of the Internet in recent years, high-speed data transmission services for subscriber networks (access networks) have taken root in a real way. This has been accompanied by a growth in fibre-optic communications networks. Fig. 1 illustrates an optical communications network. The core DWDM (Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing) optical network is connected to LANs (Local A...

Recent research activities about hybrid optical wireless networks become attractive. In this paper, we provide an overview on integration of an Ethernet passive optical network (EPON) and a worldwide interoperability for microwave access (WiMAX) network. Gateway node that integrates both optical scheduling and wireless scheduling functions gains most interests. We promote a question: how the sc...

To accommodate the explosive packet-based data traffic in WDM networks, intelligent optical routing and switching are required in optical transport networks. Optical multiprotocol label switching networks emerged to meet this demand. In this paper, different schemes for implementing an OMPLS network are introduced. An optical MPLS network using OOC/wavelengths as labels is proposed. Based on an...

1. Introduction The main features of artificial neural networks are the large number of nonlinear processing elements and the massively parallel interconnections among them. Many researchers have studied the hardware required for artificial neural networks and the software for such highly parallel computations. In terms of the hardware, two different approaches have been proposed: VLSI-based ne...

Optical Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (O-OFDM), which transmits high speed optical signals using multiple spectrally overlapped lower-speed subcarriers, is a promising candidate for supporting future elastic optical networks. In contrast to previous works which focus on Coherent Optical OFDM (CO-OFDM), in this paper, we consider the direct-detection optical OFDM (DDO-OFDM) as the t...

Previous techniques for the management and control of optical transport networks are proving inadequate in today’s rapidly evolving multivendor environments. This article examines the issues and challenges involved in developing a standardized optical network control plane. The control of optical transport networks is decomposed into provisioning models, a circuit provisioning process based on ...

The application of an IP-based control plane to optical networks has opened up new opportunities and challenges for network designers. Although much work has been done on standardization of protocols for IP networks, the applicability of these protocols to controlling optical networks and the overall reliability of optical networks needs further investigation. This paper provides a detailed dis...