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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Large-scale and nonblocking OXC using a hybrid of WSSs and OCSs	96
Environment-aware geometric shaping for digital FSO fronthaul networks	79
Efficient statistical QoT-aware resource allocation in EONs over the C+L-band: a multi-period and low-margin perspective	63
Cost-optimal network planning for converged optical X-haul in Beyond 5G networks	63
Reinforcement-learning-based path planning in multilayer elastic optical networks [Invited]	62
Scheme of carrier cooperation with coordinated scheduling for faster and lower-cost failure/disaster recovery	55
RECCL: optimizing collective algorithms for reconfigurable optical networks	45
Two-tier PON virtualization with scheduler synchronization supporting application-level ultra-low latency in MEC based cloud-RAN, using MESH-PON	42
Optical-wireless cooperative control with optical path switching for traffic steering in Open RAN	41
Software defined networking agent demonstration to enable configuration and management of XGS-PON architectures	41
Quantum key distribution with spectral amplitude coding OCDMA for a multiple access network	38
Benchmarking framework for resource allocation algorithms in multicore fiber elastic optical networks	37
Generalized quantum-assisted digital signature service in an SDN-controlled quantum-integrated optical network	36
Semi-supervised learning model synergistically utilizing labeled and unlabeled data for failure detection in optical networks	35
Physical layer encryption-based secure slicing in 5G RAN with hybrid-trusted links	34
Optical switching for data centers and advanced computing systems [Invited]	34
Towards explainable artificial intelligence in optical networks: the use case of lightpath QoT estimation	32
ZR 400 Gbit/s and 800 Gbit/s use cases, trials, deployments, and future prospects [Invited]	31
Packet-optical transport network for future radio infrastructure	31
Task Placement and Traffic Interleaving for Cross-Datacenter LLM Training over Optical Networks	30
DRL-enabled cooperative free-space optical communication system with an elastic optical splitter	30
Hybrid 3DMA for multi-user MIMO-VLC	29
Real-time in-service ODN monitoring based on receiver-side DSP for next-generation PONs	28
Routing problem for reducing significant outages in optical networks and its system analysis	28
Spectral segmentation-based RoFSO-channel’s mixed-RF-signal demodulation technique for the outdoor-optical 6G era network	27

Capacity scaling in metro-regional aggregation networks: the multiband S-BVT	27
Non-integer-oversampling digital signal processing for coherent passive optical networks	27
Transport SDN architecture for multi-layer transport slicing	27