OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Optical Communications and Networking is 8. 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 2020-07-01 to 2024-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Power control strategies and network performance assessment for C+L+S multiband optical transport	65
Machine learning techniques for quality of transmission estimation in optical networks	62
Efficient preamble design and digital signal processing in upstream burst-mode detection of 100G TDM coherent-PON	52
Transceiver technologies for passive optical networks: past, present, and future [Invited Tutorial]	42
Machine learning regression for QoT estimation of unestablished lightpaths	39
4G to 6G: disruptions and drivers for optical access [Invited]	36
Outage probability analysis of a vertical underwater wireless optical link subject to oceanic turbulence and pointing errors	36
Distributed fiber sensor network using telecom cables as sensing media: technology advancements and applications [Invited]	36
Optical network security management: requirements, architecture, and efficient machine learning models for detection of evolving threats [Invited]	34
GNPy model of the physical layer for open and disaggregated optical networking [Invited]	31
The Art of 6G (TAO 6G): how to wire Society 5.0 [Invited]	31
Comparison of domain adaptation and active learning techniques for quality of transmission estimation with small-sized training datasets [Invited]	29
Machine-learning-based anomaly detection in optical fiber monitoring	29
Diversity analysis of simultaneous mmWave and free-space-optical transmission over F-distribution channel models	29
Machine-learning-based soft-failure localization with partial software-defined networking telemetry	28
PON going beyond FTTH [Invited Tutorial]	28
PINE: Photonic Integrated Networked Energy efficient datacenters (ENLITENED Program) [Invited]	27
From CORD to SDN Enabled Broadband Access (SEBA) [Invited Tutorial]	27
Optical access network interfaces for 5G and beyond [Invited]	27
5G network slicing with QKD and quantum-safe security	26
Comprehensive model for technoeconomic studies of next-generation central offices for metro networks	26
Monitoring and diagnostic technologies using deep neural networks for predictive optical network maintenance [Invited]	25
C+L-band upgrade strategies to sustain traffic growth in optical backbone networks	25
Machine-learning-based EDFA gain estimation [Invited]	24
Open whitebox architecture for smart integration of optical networking and data center technology [Invited]	24

Performance comparisons between machine learning and analytical models for quality of transmission estimation in wavelength-division-multiplexed systems [Invited]	24
100 Gbps/λ PON downstream O- and C-band alternatives using direct-detection and linear-impairment equalization [Invited]	24
Lightpath QoT computation in optical networks assisted by transfer learning	24
Temporal data-driven failure prognostics using BiGRU for optical networks	23
Overview of high-speed TDM-PON beyond 50 Gbps per wavelength using digital signal processing [Invited Tutorial]	23
Performance analysis of a UAV-based IRS-assisted hybrid RF/FSO link with pointing and phase shift errors	23
Experimental demonstration of flexible information rate PON beyond 100 Gb/s with probabilistic and geometric shaping	23
FLCS-PON—an opportunistic 100 Gbit/s flexible PON prototype with probabilistic shaping and soft-input FEC: operator trial and ODN case studies	22
Concept and implementation study of advanced DSP-based fiber-longitudinal optical power profile monitoring toward optical network tomography [Invited]	22
Intent-based networking and its application to optical networks [Invited Tutorial]	21
Extending P4 in-band telemetry to user equipment for latency- and localization-aware autonomous networking with AI forecasting	21
Cognitive and autonomous QoT-driven optical line controller	20
Reflective fiber fault detection and characterization using long short-term memory	20
DACON: a reconfigurable application-centric optical network for disaggregated data center infrastructures [Invited]	20
Tutorial on filterless optical networks [Invited]	20
Reliable and scalable Kafka-based framework for optical network telemetry	20
TAPI-enabled SDN control for partially disaggregated multi-domain (OLS) and multi-layer (WDM over SDM) optical networks [Invited]	19
Advances in SDN control and telemetry for beyond 100G disaggregated optical networks [Invited]	19
Survivable virtual network mapping with content connectivity against multiple link failures in optical metro networks	19
High-port-count optical circuit switches for intra-datacenter networks [Invited Tutorial]	19
Simplified digital coherent-based beyond-100G optical access systems for B5G/6G [Invited]	19
Technoeconomic analysis of spatial channel networks (SCNs): benefits from spatial bypass and spectral grooming [Invited]	19
Machine learning-assisted nonlinear-impairment-aware proactive defragmentation forC+Lband elastic optical networks	18
On the benefits of point-to-multipoint coherent optics for multilayer capacity planning in ring networks with varying traffic profiles	18
Optimization of survivable filterless optical networks exploiting digital subcarrier multiplexing	18
Optical transport for Industry 4.0 [Invited]	18
Programmable VCSEL-based photonic system architecture for future agile Tb/s metro networks	17
Cost-effective strategies to scale the capacity of regional optical transport networks	17
On the benefits of domain adaptation techniques for quality of transmission estimation in optical networks	17
Indoor optical wireless access networks—recent progress [Invited]	17
Virtualized EAST–WEST PON architecture supporting low-latency communication for mobile functional split based on multiaccess edge computing	17
Advanced architectures for high-performance quantum networking	16
Achieving high budget classes in the downstream link of 50G-PON	16
Evaluation of the abstraction of optical topology models in blockchain-based data center interconnection	16
Associating machine-learning and analytical models for quality of transmission estimation: combining the best of both worlds	16
Toward lower-diameter large-scale HPC and data center networks with co-packaged optics	16
Assessment on the in-field lightpath QoT computation including connector loss uncertainties	16
Performance studies of evolutionary transfer learning for end-to-end QoT estimation in multi-domain optical networks [Invited]	15
Experimental evaluation of control and monitoring protocols for optical SDN networks and equipment [Invited Tutorial]	15
Techniques for applying reinforcement learning to routing and wavelength assignment problems in optical fiber communication networks	15
Potential failure cause identification for optical networks using deep learning with an attention mechanism	15
Making intelligent topology design choices: understanding structural and physical property performance implications in optical networks [Invited]	15
RDON: a rack-scale disaggregated data center network based on a distributed fast optical switch	14
Edge-enhanced graph neural network for DU-CU placement and lightpath provision in X-Haul networks	14
100G fine-granularity flexible-rate passive optical networks based on discrete multi-tone with PAPR optimization	14
Deep learning-based real-time analysis of lightpath optical constellations [Invited]	14
TRA: an efficient dynamic resource assignment algorithm for MCF-based SS-FONs	14
Optimal and near-optimal alpha-fair resource allocation algorithms based on traffic demand predictions for optical network planning	13
Machine-learning-aided cognitive reconfiguration for flexible-bandwidth HPC and data center networks [Invited]	13
Machine-learning-based telemetry for monitoring long-haul optical transmission impairments: methodologies and challenges [Invited]	13

Innovation and demonstration of optical service unit-based metro-optimized OTN technologies	13
On the impact of launch power optimization and transceiver noise on the performance of ultra-wideband transmission systems [Invited]	13
Domain adaptation and transfer learning for failure detection and failure-cause identification in optical networks across different lightpaths [Invited]	13
Analysis and simulation of a hybrid visible-light/infrared optical wireless network for IoT applications	13
Demonstration of latency-aware 5G network slicing on optical metro networks	13
QoT-aware performance evaluation of spectrally–spatially flexible optical networks over FM-MCFs	13
Automated training dataset collection system design for machine learning application in optical networks: an example of quality of transmission estimation	13
Improving the performance of a DF relay-aided FSO system with an additional source–relay mmWave RF backup	13
High-performance dual-band radio-over-fiber link for future 5G radio access applications	13
Enabling technologies for low-latency service migration in 5G transport networks [Invited]	13
Mobility management in multi-tier LiFi networks	13
Building a digital twin for intelligent optical networks [Invited Tutorial]	13
Dynamic service provisioning in space-division multiplexing elastic optical networks	13
Fast signal quality monitoring for coherent communications enabled by CNN-based EVM estimation	12
Performance trade-offs in reconfigurable networks for HPC	12
ML-assisted QoT estimation: a dataset collection and data visualization for dataset quality evaluation	12
Benefits of counterpropagating Raman amplification for multiband optical networks	12
Hard-input FEC evaluation using Markov models for equalization-induced correlated errors in 50G PON	12
Availability-guaranteed slice composition for service function chains in 5G transport networks	12
Reconfiguring multicast sessions in elastic optical networks adaptively with graph-aware deep reinforcement learning	12
Experimental validation of GNPy in a multi-vendor flex-grid flex-rate WDM optical transport scenario	11
Spectrum allocation scheme considering spectrum slicing in elastic optical networks	11
QoT assessment of the optical spectrum as a service in disaggregated network scenarios	11
Towards explainable artificial intelligence in optical networks: the use case of lightpath QoT estimation	11
Perspectives on and the road towards 100 Gb/s TDM PON with intensity-modulation and direct-detection	11
Bidirectional single-fiber filterless optical networks: modeling and experimental assessment	11
OCATA: a deep-learning-based digital twin for the optical time domain	11
Telemetry and AI-based security P4 applications for optical networks [Invited]	11
Network upgrade exploiting multi band: S- or E-band?	11
Quality of transmission estimator retraining for dynamic optimization in optical networks	11
Efficiency and fairness improvement for elastic optical networks using reinforcement learning-based traffic prediction	11
Opening up ROADMs: streaming telemetry [Invited]	10
Multilayer protection-at-lightpath for reliable slicing with isolation in optical metro-aggregation networks	10
DSP-enhanced radio-over-fiber technologies for 5G-and-beyond wired-wireless convergence	10
Storage-assisted optical upstream transport scheme for task offloading in multi-access edge computing	10
Dynamic 5G RAN slice adjustment and migration based on traffic prediction in WDM metro-aggregation networks	10
The future of communications is massively parallel	10
Real-time control and management plane for edge-cloud deterministic and dynamic networks	10
Classification and forecasting of real-time server traffic flows employing long short-term memory for hybrid E/O data center networks	10
Coherent optics for access from P2P to P2MP [Invited]	9
100 Gb/s dynamically programmable SDN-enabled hardware encryptor for optical networks	9
Cost analysis of rural roll-out using a long-reach passive optical network: trading off the upfront cost under uncertainty of the user take-up rate	9
Colorless, partially directionless, and contentionless architecture for high-degree ROADMs	9
Prospects and challenges of optical switching technologies for intra data center networks	9
MONet: heterogeneous Memory over Optical Network for large-scale data center resource disaggregation	9
Optics enabled networks and architectures for data center cost and power efficiency [Invited]	9
Enhancing the flexibility and functionality of SCNs: demonstration of evolution toward any-core-access, nondirectional, and contentionless spatial channel cross-connects [Invited]	9
On the suitability, requisites, and challenges of machine learning [Invited]	9
QoS-aware data center network reconfiguration method based on deep reinforcement learning	8
Knowledge distillation technique enabled hardware efficient OSNR monitoring from directly detected PDM-QAM signals	8
Low-cost MIMO-RoF-PON architecture for next-generation integrated wired and wireless access networks	8
Multi-period planning in metro-aggregation networks exploiting point-to-multipoint coherent transceivers	8
Optimized IP-over-WDM core networks using ZR+ and flexible muxponders for 400 Gb/s and beyond	8
Deep-learning-based path computation without routing convergence in optical satellite networks	8
Machine learning for quality of transmission: a picture of the benefits fairness when planning WDM networks	8
Programmable disaggregated multi-dimensional S-BVT as an enabler for high capacity optical metro networks	8