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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Physical layer encryption-based secure slicing in 5G RAN with hybrid-trusted links	59
DRL-enabled cooperative free-space optical communication system with an elastic optical splitter	56
Two-tier PON virtualization with scheduler synchronization supporting application-level ultra-low latency in MEC based cloud-RAN, using MESH-PON	54
Software defined networking agent demonstration to enable configuration and management of XGS-PON architectures	52
Scheme of carrier cooperation with coordinated scheduling for faster and lower-cost failure/disaster recovery	47
Semi-supervised learning model synergistically utilizing labeled and unlabeled data for failure detection in optical networks	42
Generalized quantum-assisted digital signature service in an SDN-controlled quantum-integrated optical network	42
Efficient statistical QoT-aware resource allocation in EONs over the C+L-band: a multi-period and low-margin perspective	39
Security enhanced dynamic bandwidth allocation algorithm against degradation attacks in next generation passive optical networks	36
Zero touch provisioning compliant with authentications of IEEE PON packages A and B for SDN-enabled broadband access	36
Reinforcement-learning-based path planning in multilayer elastic optical networks [Invited]	35
ZR 400 Gbit/s and 800 Gbit/s use cases, trials, deployments, and future prospects [Invited]	33
Packet-optical transport network for future radio infrastructure	32
Optical switching for data centers and advanced computing systems [Invited]	31
FPGA-based network microburst analysis system with efficient packet capturing	29
RECCL: optimizing collective algorithms for reconfigurable optical networks	29
Towards explainable artificial intelligence in optical networks: the use case of lightpath QoT estimation	29
Benchmarking framework for resource allocation algorithms in multicore fiber elastic optical networks	29
End-to-end optimization of optical communication systems based on directly modulated lasers	28
ML approaches for OTDR diagnoses in passive optical networks—event detection and classification: ways for ODN branch assignment	28
Real-time in-service ODN monitoring based on receiver-side DSP for next-generation PONs	28
Hybrid 3DMA for multi-user MIMO-VLC	27
Extended network applications of coherent pluggable transceivers [Invited]	27
Quantum key distribution in optical fibers: a comprehensive design view of the overall quantum layer beyond transmission	26
Optical network topology design to execute many tasks simultaneously in a disaggregated data center	26

Multilayer restoration in IP-Optical networks by adjustable robust optimization and deep reinforcement learning	25
Capacity scaling in metro-regional aggregation networks: the multiband S-BVT	25
Non-integer-oversampling digital signal processing for coherent passive optical networks	25
Transport SDN architecture for multi-layer transport slicing	24
Machine learning enhancement of a digital twin for wavelength division multiplexing network performance prediction leveraging quality of transmission parameter refinement	23
Routing problem for reducing significant outages in optical networks and its system analysis	23
Innovation and demonstration of optical service unit-based metro-optimized OTN technologies	23
Building a digital twin of an EDFA for optical networks: a gray-box modeling approach	22
Disaggregated optical-layer switching for optically composable disaggregated computing [Invited]	22
On clustering coherent optics point-to-multipoint trees for cost-effective bandwidth assignment in MANs	22
High-port-count optical circuit switches for intra-datacenter networks [Invited Tutorial]	22
Building a digital twin for intelligent optical networks [Invited Tutorial]	21
Invariant convolutional neural network for robust and generalizable QoT estimation in fiber-optic networks	21
Optical fiber anomaly detection through SRS-induced spectral tilt in C+L-band transmission systems	21
Optimal Placement of Multi-wavelength Integrated Tunable Transmitters in Reconfigurable Optical Data Center Interconnetion Networks with Multi-hop Routing	21
Mitigation of the parallel-path effect for reliable monitoring of a passive optical network using standard optical time domain reflectometry	20
Benefits of counterpropagating Raman amplification for multiband optical networks	20
Multi-step migration of optical connections to minimize disruption time in flex-grid networks	20
Latitude- and time-zone-aware load balancing in optical satellite networks	20
Joint RMSSA scheme and link load balancing for static SD-SCNs from model building to algorithm design	20
Reliable and scalable Kafka-based framework for optical network telemetry	19
Probabilistic low-margin optical-network design with multiple physical-layer parameter uncertainties	19
Power-aware high-capacity elastic optical networks	19
Benefits of flexibility in current and future IM-DD based TDM-PON [Invited]	19
Live demonstration of an SDN-reconfigurable, FPGA-based TxRx for an analog-IFoF/mmWave radio access network in an MNO’s infrastructure	19
Architecture and performance evaluation of fiber-granularity routing networks with supplemental grooming by wavelength conversion	19
Intent-based networking and its application to optical networks [Invited Tutorial]	18
Optimization of survivable filterless optical networks exploiting digital subcarrier multiplexing	18
Fully softwarized 10G-EPON by low-latency function chaining in container environments	18
Reinforcement learning aided geometric shaping and self-canceling coherent detection for a PAM4 FSO communication system	18
Optical networking that exploits massive wavelength/spectrum and spatial parallelisms	18
Migration of elastic optical networks to the C + L-bands subject to a partial upgrade of the number of erbium-doped fiber amplifiers	17
DRAMA-PRO+: Disaster Recovery Algorithm with Mitigation Awareness for Protected Translucent Elastic Optical Networks [Invited, FNWF 2024]	17
Real-time validation of downstream 50G/25G and 50G/100G flexible rate PON based on Miller encoding, NRZ, and PAM4 modulation	17
End-to-end transport network digital twins with cloud-native SDN controllers and generative AI [Invited]	17
Machine learning models for alarm classification and failure localization in optical transport networks	16
Optical identification using physical unclonable functions	16
Achieving high budget classes in the downstream link of 50G-PON	16
Simplified digital coherent-based beyond-100G optical access systems for B5G/6G [Invited]	16
Deterministic latency networks: the enabler of edge data center synchronous operation [Invited]	16
Iterative supervised learning approach using transceiver bit-error-rate measurements for optical line system optimization	16
Cost analysis of ultrawideband transmission in optical networks	15
Real-time demonstration of industrial protocol applications by PHY softwarization for fully virtualized access networks	15
Dynamic resource allocation for multicast in SDM-EON: time-decoupled dynamic path cross talk and joint weight	15
End-to-end service provisioning based on extended segment routing in multi-domain optical networks of F5G	15
The future of communications is massively parallel	15
Noise-aware resource allocation with integrated key generation and consumption for CV-QKD over WDM networks	14
Dimensioning access link capacity for time-varying traffic with mixed packet streams and circuit connections	14
Optical switching will innovate intra data center networks [Invited Tutorial]	14
Dantzig–Wolfe decomposition for the design of filterless optical networks	14

On the performance of a relay assisted hybrid RF-NLOS UVC system with imperfect channel estimation	14
ReSAW: a reconfigurable and picosecond-synchronized optical data center network based on an AWGR and the WR protocol	14
Multi-span optical power spectrum prediction using cascaded learning with one-shot end-to-end measurement	13
Scalability analysis of machine learning QoT estimators for a cloud-native SDN controller on a WDM over SDM network	13
In Memoriam: Jane M. Simmons, 1963–2021	13
Software-defined networking agent for integrating voice, data, and video services into XGS-PON architectures	13
What is beyond 50G: future standards of optical access networks [Invited]	13
Network upgrade exploiting multi band: S- or E-band?	13
Availability estimation of optical network links using a Bayesian model	13
Outright fit resource allocation approach for advance reservation requests in elastic optical networks	13
Graph-based conflict-free MAC protocol and conflict analysis for a two-layer ultraviolet communication network	13
Transceiver impairment robust and joint monitoring of PDL, DGD, and CD using frequency domain pilot tones for digital subcarrier multiplexing systems	12
On the detection, modeling, and mitigation of anomalous QoT fluctuations in optical networks	12
Automated fiber switch with path verification enabled by an AI-powered multi-task mobile robot	12
Operation of optical spectrum as a service in disaggregated and multi-operator environments [Invited]	12
Introduction to the JOCN Special Issue on the Impact of Photonic Technologies on Future Optical Networks	12
DNN-based optical performance monitoring and its application for soft failure localization by multipoint estimation	12
Demonstration of real-time jitter-buffered architecture that collects network information for deterministic optical communication	12
Efficient transport of enhanced CPRI fronthaul over PON [Invited]	12
Coherent optics for access from P2P to P2MP [Invited]	12
Enabling extended access aggregation with light-trees and point-to-multipoint coherent transceivers	12
Introduction to the JOCN Special Issue on Spatial Parallelism for Next-Generation High-Capacity Transport Networks	12
DSP-enhanced radio-over-fiber technologies for 5G-and-beyond wired-wireless convergence: publisher’s note	11
Load-balancing routing algorithms for service congestion avoidance in LEO optical satellite networks	11
Design and control of highly spectrally efficient photonic networks enabled by fiber-granular routing on overlaid ring-shaped topologies	11
Layout design of densest weakly coupled multi-core fibers to minimize the network blocking rate	11
DNN distributed inference offloading scheme based on transfer reinforcement learning in metro optical networks	11
Forecasting loss of signal in optical networks with machine learning	11
Cost-effective QKD protocol upgrading for metropolitan quantum optical networks	11
Demonstration of a three-node wavelength division multiplexed hybrid quantum-classical network through multicore fiber	11
Ultraviolet random access collaborative networking protocol based on time division multiple access	11
Field Demonstration of Commercial PONs for Edge-Cloud Based Industrial Scenarios: Requirements, Use-cases, and Proof-of-Concepts	11
Connectivity analysis and user access design of ground-to-air ultraviolet communication networks	10
Near-real-time 6G service operation enabled by distributed intelligence and in-band telemetry	10
Sample-distribution-matching-based transfer learning for QoT estimation in optical networks	10
Raman amplifier design and launch power optimization in multi-band optical systems	10
Performance trade-offs in reconfigurable networks for HPC	10
User and resource allocation in latency constrained Xhaul via reinforcement learning	10
SkipNet: an adaptive neural network equalization algorithm for future passive optical networking	10
Optimizing telemetry forwarding for distributed failure recovery in packet-optical networks	10
Design, prototyping, and polarity management of all-port flipped 19-core fiber splitters for broadcast-and-select-type spatial cross-connects	10
Performance Investigation on Disaggregated Artificial Intelligence Data Centers Beyond Rack Scale with Optical Switching	10
Introduction to the OFC 2022 Special Issue	10
Pre- and post-processing techniques for reinforcement-learning-based routing and spectrum assignment in elastic optical networks	10
Mapping-finding input-parameter refinement paradigm for a dynamic multiband optical network digital twin: the Raman amplifier modeling case	10
Topology Bench: systematic graph-based benchmarking for core optical networks	10
Scalability of integer linear programming path computation for functional block-based disaggregation supporting a flexible grid mechanism [Invited]	10
Polarity management of multicore fiber-based optical devices in unidirectional and bidirectional spatial channel networks	10
Data augmentation to improve performance of neural networks for failure management in optical networks	10
Local and global optimization methods for optical line control based on quality of transmission	10
On the design of efficient fiber-wireless architectures to enable multigigabit visible light communication	10
Space optical communication system for space optical networks and deep space exploration	10
Fast WDM provisioning with minimal probing: the first field experiments for DC exchanges	9
Bidirectional colorless WDM-PON RoF system with large spurious free dynamic range	9
Experimental demonstration of a multi-core fiber seeded comb optical network (MCF-SCON)	9
AI/ML-as-a-Service for optical network automation: use cases and challenges [Invited]	9
Experimental dataset for developing and testing ML models in optical communication systems	9
Protection against failure of machine-learning-based QoT prediction	9
Storage-assisted optical upstream transport scheme for task offloading in multi-access edge computing	9
Scheduled lightpath demand provisioning in fiber space division multiplexing optical networks	9
Optical access networks to support future 5G and 6G mobile networks [Invited]	9
Quality-aware resource provisioning for multiband elastic optical networks: a deep-learning-assisted approach	9
Potential failure cause identification for optical networks using deep learning with an attention mechanism	9
Modeling and analysis of coherent metro + PON converged networks for ultra-high speed applications	9
Scaling wavelength selective switches for multi-band and space-division-multiplexed networks	9
Improving the accuracy of QoT estimation with insertion loss distribution evaluation for C + L band transmission systems	9
Photonic Gateway accommodating all types of wavelength paths for digital-coherent and IM-DD user terminals in all-photonic metro-access converged networks	9
Optimized design of horseshoe-and-spur filterless networks leveraging point-to-multipoint coherent pluggable transceivers	9
Blockchain-based trust management collaborative system for transport multi-stakeholder scenarios	9
Photonic WDM switches architecture for multi-band optical networks	9
Coherent passive optical network: applications, technologies, and specification development [Invited Tutorial]	9
Multilayer protection-at-lightpath for reliable slicing with isolation in optical metro-aggregation networks	9
DSP-based inter-channel interference monitoring in flexible wavelength-routed networks	9
Experimental evaluation of an SDN controller for open optical-circuit-switched networks	9
Hybrid radio-over-fiber transport system to support heterogeneous indoor mobile network environments	9
Real-time orchestration of QoS-aware end-to-end slices across a converged Metro and Access network exploiting burst-mode technology	9
In-network stable radix sorter using many FPGAs with high-bandwidth photonics [Invited]	9
Reconfiguring multicast sessions in elastic optical networks adaptively with graph-aware deep reinforcement learning	9