Special Issue on Optimization of Wire and Wireless Optical Networks

Intense development of optical technologies has enhanced the importance of optical networks that are no longer used exclusively in backbone networks, but have become fundamental elements of access networks. Currently, they are being more and more widely used in the mobile backhaul part of 3/4/5G wireless networks.

The rapid surge in the popularity and scope of utilisation of optical and hybrid networks has necessitated the creation of analytic and simulation techniques for their modelling, dimensioning and optimisation. The methods of modelling optical networks that are being developed, help to determine their mobile properties, both in terms of modelling optical connections, and entire nodes. This research leads to the elaboration of the optimum structure of optical network nodes, and particularly to devising new architectures of switching fabrics used in these nodes.

The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Technologies used in optimisation process of optical or hybrid networks
Services in optical wire and wireless networks
Performance evaluation of multiservice access nodes in optical or hybrid networks
Resource management mechanisms for core optical networks
Traffic control methods in optical access networks
Analytical and simulation models of optical access networks
Design and dimensioning of nodes in backbone optical networks.

The special issue’s paper submission page is available at https://www.evise.com/profile/#/osn/login When submitting the manuscript for this special issue, please select “Special issue: Optimization of Wire WON” as the article type.

Manuscript due: June 1st, 2017
First Round of Reviews: October 1st , 2017
Publication Date: 1st Quarter, 2018

Lead Guest Editor

Dr Piotr Zwierzykowski (piotr.zwierzykowski@put.poznan.pl); Poznan University of Technology, Poznan, Poland

Guest Editors

Dr Vassilios G. Vassilakis (vv274@cl.cam.ac.uk), Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

Prof. Erich Leitgeb (erich.leitgeb@tugraz.at); Institute of Microwave and Photonic Engineering, Graz University of Technology, Austria

Prof. Mariusz Głąbowski (mariusz.glabowski@put.poznan.pl), Poznan University of Technology, Poznan, Poland