Optical networks special issue based on selected I

Authors: Gangxiang Shen Calvin C K Chan Jie Zhang Jason P Jue

Publish Date: 2016/04/05

Volume: 31, Issue: 2, Pages: 183-185

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Abstract

IEEE ICOCN aims to provide a premier opportunity for professionals experts engineers scientists and industrial people worldwide in the field of research development and applications of photonics to share and exchange their experience IEEE ICOCN 2014 included three technical tracks 1 optical networks 2 optical transmission subsystems and techniques and 3 photonic devices and integrationIEEE ICOCN 2014 was a twoday event organized by Optical Network Technology Research Center ONTRC in School of Electronic and Information Engineering Soochow University IEEE ICOCN 2014 was technically sponsored by IEEE Photonics Society The conference was also supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China NSFC Zhongtian Broadband Technology Electronic Institute of Suzhou and the City Government of SuzhouWe accepted more than 120 papers by the authors from more than 13 countries and regions among which 59 are invited talks All the papers were carefully reviewed by more than 30 Technical Program Committee TPC members and external reviewers with each paper evaluated by at least two reviewers All these papers and talks are organized into eight lecturestyle oral sessions and one interactive poster sessionBased on the comments received from the reviewers the authors of nine accepted papers that are in the area of optical networks were invited to submit an extended version of their work for possible publication in this Optical Networks Special Issue of the Springer Photonic Network Communications PNET journal After a thorough review process eight papers have been selected for publication In addition this Special Issue includes invited papers that went through the same review process of the other accepted papers A brief summary on the accepted papers is provided nextIn “Backup Reprovisioning with Partial Protection for DisasterSurvivable SoftwareDefined Optical Networks” S S Savas C Ma M Tornatore and B Mukherjee propose a Backup Reprovisioning with Partial Protection BRPP scheme supporting dedicated path protection where backup resources are reserved but not provisioned as in sharedpath protection such that the amount of bandwidth reserved for backups as well as their routings is subject to dynamic changes given the network state to increase utilizationIn “Optical Quorum Cycles for Efficient Communication” C J Kleinheksel and A K Somani propose to apply the distributed efficiency of the quorum sets to route optical cycles based on lighttrails With this new method of topology construction unicast and multicast communication requests do not need to be known or even modeled a prioriIn “Correlationbased Virtual Machine Migration in Dynamic Cloud Environments” L Liu S Zheng H Yu V Anand and D Xu establish a service level agreement SLAbased soft migration mechanism to significantly reduce the number of virtual machine VM migrations and develop two algorithms to solve the VM and server selection issues in which the correlation between the VMs and the servers is used to identify the appropriate VMs to be migrated and the destination servers for them

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