PNET “ONDM 2019” special issue

Excerpt

This PNET ONDM 2019 special issue (SI) includes extended versions of 14 papers, out of 55 in total oral and poster papers presented at ONDM 2019, held in Athens, Greece, in May 2019. These papers were selected and invited to be submitted to this SI based on their high-quality content. The papers focus on cutting-edge research in established areas of optical networking as well as their adoption in support of a wide variety of new services and applications. This involves the most recent trends in core, metro and access networks including elastic optical networks, software platforms relying on software-defined networking (SDN), network function virtualization (NFV), 5G and beyond, cloud/edge computing, artificial intelligence-assisted networks, secure and resilient networks as well as data center networks. All submitted papers went through a thorough peer-review process, and their content is briefly summarized below. …