OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Optical Communications and Networking is 27. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Cost-optimal network planning for converged optical X-haul in Beyond 5G networks	89
Environment-aware geometric shaping for digital FSO fronthaul networks	68
Efficient statistical QoT-aware resource allocation in EONs over the C+L-band: a multi-period and low-margin perspective	68
Large-scale and nonblocking OXC using a hybrid of WSSs and OCSs	65
Optical-wireless cooperative control with optical path switching for traffic steering in Open RAN	48
Towards explainable artificial intelligence in optical networks: the use case of lightpath QoT estimation	45
Semi-supervised learning model synergistically utilizing labeled and unlabeled data for failure detection in optical networks	45
Generalized quantum-assisted digital signature service in an SDN-controlled quantum-integrated optical network	45
Physical layer encryption-based secure slicing in 5G RAN with hybrid-trusted links	42
Two-tier PON virtualization with scheduler synchronization supporting application-level ultra-low latency in MEC based cloud-RAN, using MESH-PON	39
RECCL: optimizing collective algorithms for reconfigurable optical networks	39
Software defined networking agent demonstration to enable configuration and management of XGS-PON architectures	36
Reinforcement-learning-based path planning in multilayer elastic optical networks [Invited]	36
Optical switching for data centers and advanced computing systems [Invited]	36
Task placement and traffic interleaving for cross-datacenter LLM training over optical networks	36
Quantum key distribution with spectral amplitude coding OCDMA for a multiple access network	35
ZR 400 Gbit/s and 800 Gbit/s use cases, trials, deployments, and future prospects [Invited]	33
Benchmarking framework for resource allocation algorithms in multicore fiber elastic optical networks	32
Scheme of carrier cooperation with coordinated scheduling for faster and lower-cost failure/disaster recovery	32
DRL-enabled cooperative free-space optical communication system with an elastic optical splitter	31
AutoONBench: a benchmark for large language model agents in autonomous optical networks	31
Packet-optical transport network for future radio infrastructure	31
Capacity scaling in metro-regional aggregation networks: the multiband S-BVT	30
Hybrid 3DMA for multi-user MIMO-VLC	30
Machine learning enhancement of a digital twin for wavelength division multiplexing network performance prediction leveraging quality of transmission parameter refinement	29

Energy-efficient routing based on satellite–ground cooperation in optical satellite networks	28
ML approaches for OTDR diagnoses in passive optical networks—event detection and classification: ways for ODN branch assignment	28
Spectral segmentation-based RoFSO-channel’s mixed-RF-signal demodulation technique for the outdoor-optical 6G era network	27