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The number of applications running in the cloud has dramatically increased in the past decade as well as the number of users accessing them. Data centres resources, architectures and conditions define the performance of the applications…
Due to the emergence of new paradigms and services such as 5G/6G, IoT, and more, current deployed wired Data Center Networks (DCNs) are not meeting the required performance metrics due to their limited reconfigurability, scalability, and…
Data center networks are experiencing unprecedented exponential growth, mostly driven by the continuous computing demands in machine learning and artificial intelligence algorithms. Within this realm, optical networking offers numerous…
Environmental concerns have motivated network designers to further reduce energy consumption of access networks. This paper focuses on reducing energy consumption of Ethernet passive optical network (EPON) as one of the most efficient…
The fifth-generation of mobile radio technologies is expected to be agile, flexible, and scalable while provisioning ultra-reliable and low-latency communication (uRLLC), enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB), and massive machine type…
The paper introduces an original MAC protocol for a passive optical metropolitan area network using time-domain wavelength interleaved networking (TWIN)% as proposed recently by Bell Labs . Optical channels are shared under the distributed…
We demonstrate and evaluate a fully-blind digital signal processing (DSP) chain for 100G passive optical networks (PONs), and analyze different equalizer topologies based on neural networks with low hardware complexity.
Virtualized Passive Optical Networks (vPONs) offer a promising solution for modern access networks, bringing enhanced flexibility, reduced capital expenditures (CapEx), and support for multi-tenancy. By decoupling network functions from…
Edge computing that leverages cloud resources to the proximity of user devices is seen as the future infrastructure for distributed applications. However, developing and deploying edge applications, that rely on cellular networks, is…
Optical wireless communication (OWC) is a promising technology that can provide high data rates while supporting multiple users. The Optical Wireless (OW) physical layer has been researched extensively, however less work was devoted to…
There is a continuous growth in demand for time sensitive applications which has shifted the cloud paradigm from a centralized computing architecture towards distributed heterogeneous computing platforms where resources located at the edge…
Two-step aggregation is introduced to facilitate scalable federated learning (SFL) over passive optical networks (PONs). Results reveal that the SFL keeps the required PON upstream bandwidth constant regardless of the number of involved…
The use of remote vision sensors for autonomous decision-making poses the challenge of transmitting high-volume visual data over resource-constrained channels in real-time. In robotics and control applications, many systems can quickly…
Ethernet Passive Optical Networks (EPON) access systems are considered as an alternative to ADSL for high speed access to the Internet. Supported by the Ethernet First Mile Alliance and the IEEE, the MPCP protocol has been adopted as the…
Economical and environmental concerns necessitate research on designing energy-efficient optical access network especially Ethernet Passive Optical Network (EPON) which is one of the most widely accepted and deployed last-mile access…
Optical frequency transfer provides the means for high-fidelity frequency transfer across thousands of kilometers. A critical step in the further developing optical frequency transfer is its capability to transfer a high spectral purity…
Design of energy-efficient access networks has emerged as an important area of research, since access networks consume $80-90\%$ of the overall Internet power consumption. TWDM-PON is envisaged to be one of the widely accepted future access…
Current Gigabit-class passive optical networks (PONs) evolve into next-generation PONs, whereby high-speed 10+ Gb/s time division multiplexing (TDM) and long-reach wavelength-broadcasting/routing wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) PONs…
We provide a real-time demonstration of a low-latency PON DBA mechanism, optimised for virtual PONs. Our implementation mixes P4 programmable data plane and software-based virtual DBA to provide efficient fast-track allocation for low…
We present a novel coding-based technique for remote monitoring of passive optical networks which exploits the wavelength-to-time mapping effect of broadband short pulses in a highly dispersive medium. In this scheme, each encoder consists…