Elastic Optical Networks

1. Motivation
Víctor López, Luis Velasco

2. Evolution from Wavelength-Switched to Flex-Grid Optical Networks
Andrew Lord, Yu Rong Zhou, Rich Jensen, Annalisa Morea, Marc Ruiz

3. Taking Advantage of Elastic Optical Networks
Alexandros Stavdas, Chris Matrakidis, Matthias Gunkel, Adrian Asensio, Luis Velasco, Emmanouel Varvarigos, Kostas Christodoulopoulos

4. Routing and Spectrum Allocation
Luis Velasco, Marc Ruiz, Kostas Christodoulopoulos, Manos Varvarigos, Mateusz Żotkiewicz, Michal Pióro

5. Transmission in Elastic Optical Networks
Antonio Napoli, Danish Rafique, Marc Bohn, Markus Nölle, Johannes Karl Fischer, Colja Schubert

6. Node Architectures for Elastic and Flexible Optical Networks
Georgios Zervas, Emilio Hugues-Salas, Tanya Polity, Silvano Frigerio, Ken-Ichi Sato

7. Sliceable Bandwidth Variable Transponders
Juan Pedro Fernández-Palacios, Víctor López, Beatriz Cruz, Ori Gerstel, Nicola Sambo, Emilio Riccardi

8. GMPLS Control Plane
Oscar González Dios, Ramon Casellas, Francesco Paolucci

9. Software Defined Networking (SDN) in Optical Networks
Filippo Cugini, Piero Castoldi, Mayur Channegowda, Ramon Casellas, Francesco Paolucci, Alberto Castro

10. Application-Based Network Operations (ABNO)
Daniel King, Víctor Lopez, Oscar Gonzalez Dios, Ramon Casellas, Nektarios Georgalas, Adrian Farrel

11. In-Operation Network Planning
Ramon Casellas, Alessio Giorgetti, Lluís Gifre, Luis Velasco, Víctor López, Oscar González, Daniel King

Keywords: Engineering, Communications Engineering, Networks, Microwaves, RF and Optical Engineering, Computer Communication Networks