OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Optical Communications and Networking is 9. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Progress of ITU-T higher speed passive optical network (50G-PON) standardization	119
Super-PON: an evolution for access networks [Invited]	60
Power control strategies and network performance assessment for C+L+S multiband optical transport	60
Machine learning techniques for quality of transmission estimation in optical networks	58
Advanced optical access technologies for next-generation (5G) mobile networks [Invited]	55
Efficient preamble design and digital signal processing in upstream burst-mode detection of 100G TDM coherent-PON	45
DSP enabled next generation 50G TDM-PON	38
Transceiver technologies for passive optical networks: past, present, and future [Invited Tutorial]	38
Machine learning regression for QoT estimation of unestablished lightpaths	38
From 25 Gb/s to 50 Gb/s TDM PON: transceiver architectures, their performance, standardization aspects, and cost modeling	36
Modeling and mitigation of fiber nonlinearity in wideband optical signal transmission [Invited]	32
4G to 6G: disruptions and drivers for optical access [Invited]	32
Distributed fiber sensor network using telecom cables as sensing media: technology advancements and applications [Invited]	31
Optical network security management: requirements, architecture, and efficient machine learning models for detection of evolving threats [Invited]	31
Comparative study of cost-effective coherent and direct detection schemes for 100 Gb/s/λ PON	31
Fragmentation metrics and fragmentation-aware algorithm for spectrally/spatially flexible optical networks	30
GNPy model of the physical layer for open and disaggregated optical networking [Invited]	29
Comparison of domain adaptation and active learning techniques for quality of transmission estimation with small-sized training datasets [Invited]	28
Outage probability analysis of a vertical underwater wireless optical link subject to oceanic turbulence and pointing errors	27
Analog fiber-wireless downlink transmission of IFoF/mmWave over in-field deployed legacy PON infrastructure for 5G fronthauling	27
Diversity analysis of simultaneous mmWave and free-space-optical transmission over F-distribution channel models	27
Optical access network interfaces for 5G and beyond [Invited]	27
The Art of 6G (TAO 6G): how to wire Society 5.0 [Invited]	27
PINE: Photonic Integrated Networked Energy efficient datacenters (ENLITENED Program) [Invited]	26
PON going beyond FTTH [Invited Tutorial]	25

Comprehensive model for technoeconomic studies of next-generation central offices for metro networks	25
From CORD to SDN Enabled Broadband Access (SEBA) [Invited Tutorial]	24
Machine-learning-based soft-failure localization with partial software-defined networking telemetry	24
Monitoring and diagnostic technologies using deep neural networks for predictive optical network maintenance [Invited]	24
Machine-learning-based anomaly detection in optical fiber monitoring	23
Performance comparisons between machine learning and analytical models for quality of transmission estimation in wavelength-division-multiplexed systems [Invited]	22
Open whitebox architecture for smart integration of optical networking and data center technology [Invited]	22
Temporal data-driven failure prognostics using BiGRU for optical networks	22
100 Gbps/λ PON downstream O- and C-band alternatives using direct-detection and linear-impairment equalization [Invited]	22
5G network slicing with QKD and quantum-safe security	22
Lightpath QoT computation in optical networks assisted by transfer learning	21
C+L-band upgrade strategies to sustain traffic growth in optical backbone networks	20
Performance analysis of a UAV-based IRS-assisted hybrid RF/FSO link with pointing and phase shift errors	20
Cognitive and autonomous QoT-driven optical line controller	19
Extending P4 in-band telemetry to user equipment for latency- and localization-aware autonomous networking with AI forecasting	19
Machine-learning-based EDFA gain estimation [Invited]	19
TAPI-enabled SDN control for partially disaggregated multi-domain (OLS) and multi-layer (WDM over SDM) optical networks [Invited]	19
Concept and implementation study of advanced DSP-based fiber-longitudinal optical power profile monitoring toward optical network tomography [Invited]	19
FLCS-PON—an opportunistic 100 Gbit/s flexible PON prototype with probabilistic shaping and soft-input FEC: operator trial and ODN case studies	19
Intent-based networking and its application to optical networks [Invited Tutorial]	19
Optimization of survivable filterless optical networks exploiting digital subcarrier multiplexing	18
Tutorial on filterless optical networks [Invited]	18
Experimental demonstration of flexible information rate PON beyond 100 Gb/s with probabilistic and geometric shaping	18
On the benefits of point-to-multipoint coherent optics for multilayer capacity planning in ring networks with varying traffic profiles	18
Reliable and scalable Kafka-based framework for optical network telemetry	18
Optical transport for Industry 4.0 [Invited]	18
Flexible transmitters based on directly modulated VCSELs for next-generation 50G passive optical networks	17
Reflective fiber fault detection and characterization using long short-term memory	17
DACON: a reconfigurable application-centric optical network for disaggregated data center infrastructures [Invited]	17
High-port-count optical circuit switches for intra-datacenter networks [Invited Tutorial]	17
Machine learning-assisted nonlinear-impairment-aware proactive defragmentation forC+Lband elastic optical networks	17
Technoeconomic analysis of spatial channel networks (SCNs): benefits from spatial bypass and spectral grooming [Invited]	17
Survivable virtual network mapping with content connectivity against multiple link failures in optical metro networks	16
Advances in SDN control and telemetry for beyond 100G disaggregated optical networks [Invited]	16
Simplified digital coherent-based beyond-100G optical access systems for B5G/6G [Invited]	16
Evaluation of the abstraction of optical topology models in blockchain-based data center interconnection	16
On the benefits of domain adaptation techniques for quality of transmission estimation in optical networks	16
Indoor optical wireless access networks—recent progress [Invited]	16
Toward lower-diameter large-scale HPC and data center networks with co-packaged optics	16
Future optical access network enabled by modularization and softwarization of access and transmission functions [Invited]	15
Associating machine-learning and analytical models for quality of transmission estimation: combining the best of both worlds	15
Programmable VCSEL-based photonic system architecture for future agile Tb/s metro networks	15
Tree-topology-based quantum-key-relay strategy for secure multicast services	15
Virtualized EAST–WEST PON architecture supporting low-latency communication for mobile functional split based on multiaccess edge computing	15
Techniques for applying reinforcement learning to routing and wavelength assignment problems in optical fiber communication networks	14
Experimental evaluation of control and monitoring protocols for optical SDN networks and equipment [Invited Tutorial]	14
Performance studies of evolutionary transfer learning for end-to-end QoT estimation in multi-domain optical networks [Invited]	14
Advanced architectures for high-performance quantum networking	14
RDON: a rack-scale disaggregated data center network based on a distributed fast optical switch	14
Achieving high budget classes in the downstream link of 50G-PON	14

Deep learning-based real-time analysis of lightpath optical constellations [Invited]	14
Optimized joint LiFi coordinated multipoint joint transmission clustering and load balancing for hybrid LiFi and WiFi networks	14
Assessment on the in-field lightpath QoT computation including connector loss uncertainties	13
Demonstration of latency-aware 5G network slicing on optical metro networks	13
Potential failure cause identification for optical networks using deep learning with an attention mechanism	13
Optimal and near-optimal alpha-fair resource allocation algorithms based on traffic demand predictions for optical network planning	13
Cost-effective strategies to scale the capacity of regional optical transport networks	13
Improving the performance of a DF relay-aided FSO system with an additional source–relay mmWave RF backup	13
Edge-enhanced graph neural network for DU-CU placement and lightpath provision in X-Haul networks	13
Overview of high-speed TDM-PON beyond 50 Gbps per wavelength using digital signal processing [Invited Tutorial]	13
Dynamic service provisioning in space-division multiplexing elastic optical networks	13
Machine-learning-aided cognitive reconfiguration for flexible-bandwidth HPC and data center networks [Invited]	12
Machine-learning-based telemetry for monitoring long-haul optical transmission impairments: methodologies and challenges [Invited]	12
Innovation and demonstration of optical service unit-based metro-optimized OTN technologies	12
Making intelligent topology design choices: understanding structural and physical property performance implications in optical networks [Invited]	12
Mobility management in multi-tier LiFi networks	12
Automated training dataset collection system design for machine learning application in optical networks: an example of quality of transmission estimation	12
Domain adaptation and transfer learning for failure detection and failure-cause identification in optical networks across different lightpaths [Invited]	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
QoT-aware performance evaluation of spectrally–spatially flexible optical networks over FM-MCFs	12
TRA: an efficient dynamic resource assignment algorithm for MCF-based SS-FONs	12
Decentralizing machine-learning-based QoT estimation for sliceable optical networks	12
QoT assessment of the optical spectrum as a service in disaggregated network scenarios	11
Efficiency and fairness improvement for elastic optical networks using reinforcement learning-based traffic prediction	11
Spectrum allocation scheme considering spectrum slicing in elastic optical networks	11
Enabling technologies for low-latency service migration in 5G transport networks [Invited]	11
On the impact of launch power optimization and transceiver noise on the performance of ultra-wideband transmission systems [Invited]	11
ML-assisted QoT estimation: a dataset collection and data visualization for dataset quality evaluation	11
Quality of transmission estimator retraining for dynamic optimization in optical networks	11
Benefits of counterpropagating Raman amplification for multiband optical networks	11
Experimental validation of GNPy in a multi-vendor flex-grid flex-rate WDM optical transport scenario	11
Bidirectional single-fiber filterless optical networks: modeling and experimental assessment	10
Fast signal quality monitoring for coherent communications enabled by CNN-based EVM estimation	10
Storage-assisted optical upstream transport scheme for task offloading in multi-access edge computing	10
Hard-input FEC evaluation using Markov models for equalization-induced correlated errors in 50G PON	10
Network upgrade exploiting multi band: S- or E-band?	10
Opening up ROADMs: streaming telemetry [Invited]	10
Dynamic 5G RAN slice adjustment and migration based on traffic prediction in WDM metro-aggregation networks	10
Analysis and simulation of a hybrid visible-light/infrared optical wireless network for IoT applications	10
High-performance dual-band radio-over-fiber link for future 5G radio access applications	10
Real-time control and management plane for edge-cloud deterministic and dynamic networks	10
100G fine-granularity flexible-rate passive optical networks based on discrete multi-tone with PAPR optimization	10
Telemetry and AI-based security P4 applications for optical networks [Invited]	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
OCATA: a deep-learning-based digital twin for the optical time domain	9
Link-protection and FIPP p-cycle designs in translucent elastic optical networks	9
100 Gb/s dynamically programmable SDN-enabled hardware encryptor for optical networks	9
Flexible coherent UDWDM-PON with dynamic user allocation based on limited-tunability lasers	9
Classification and forecasting of real-time server traffic flows employing long short-term memory for hybrid E/O data center networks	9
Performance trade-offs in reconfigurable networks for HPC	9
Optics enabled networks and architectures for data center cost and power efficiency [Invited]	9
On the suitability, requisites, and challenges of machine learning [Invited]	9
Building a digital twin for intelligent optical networks [Invited Tutorial]	9
DSP-enhanced radio-over-fiber technologies for 5G-and-beyond wired-wireless convergence	9