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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Large-scale and nonblocking OXC using a hybrid of WSSs and OCSs	70
Generalized quantum-assisted digital signature service in an SDN-controlled quantum-integrated optical network	67
Physical layer encryption-based secure slicing in 5G RAN with hybrid-trusted links	50
RECCL: optimizing collective algorithms for reconfigurable optical networks	47
Two-tier PON virtualization with scheduler synchronization supporting application-level ultra-low latency in MEC based cloud-RAN, using MESH-PON	46
Software defined networking agent demonstration to enable configuration and management of XGS-PON architectures	45
Reinforcement-learning-based path planning in multilayer elastic optical networks [Invited]	42
Optical switching for data centers and advanced computing systems [Invited]	38
Packet-optical transport network for future radio infrastructure	37
DRL-enabled cooperative free-space optical communication system with an elastic optical splitter	36
ZR 400 Gbit/s and 800 Gbit/s use cases, trials, deployments, and future prospects [Invited]	36
Dynamic Routing and Wavelength Assignment in Optical Networks: From Capacity Limits to Flow-Based Control	36
Scheme of carrier cooperation with coordinated scheduling for faster and lower-cost failure/disaster recovery	33
Semi-supervised learning model synergistically utilizing labeled and unlabeled data for failure detection in optical networks	33
Quantum key distribution with spectral amplitude coding OCDMA for a multiple access network	32
Efficient statistical QoT-aware resource allocation in EONs over the C+L-band: a multi-period and low-margin perspective	32
Task placement and traffic interleaving for cross-datacenter LLM training over optical networks	32
AutoONBench: a benchmark for large language model agents in autonomous optical networks	31
Environment-aware geometric shaping for digital FSO fronthaul networks	31
Cost-optimal network planning for converged optical X-haul in Beyond 5G networks	29
Optical-wireless cooperative control with optical path switching for traffic steering in Open RAN	29
(ECOC 2025) SDN-Enabled Flexible CV-QKD for Coexistence with Programmable Transceivers	28
Towards explainable artificial intelligence in optical networks: the use case of lightpath QoT estimation	27
Uncertainty-guided Bayesian continual learning for robust nonlinear impairment estimation in evolving optical networks	27
Hybrid 3DMA for multi-user MIMO-VLC	27

Demonstration of Intensity-modualtion and Coherent-detection based 200-Gb/s PON with 40-dB Power Budget over 20-km SSMF enabled by MLSD and Many-to-one mapping based DP-PS-PAM4	27
Benchmarking framework for resource allocation algorithms in multicore fiber elastic optical networks	27