Elastic Optical Networks: Fundamentals, Design, Control, and Management

This book provides an overview of the the elastic optical network (EON) and its operation principle. Also, it presents the fundamentals and advanced concepts for elastic optical networking industries including both practical and theoretical aspects. Readers will discover that the book focuses on architectures, technologies, control, and management aspects while providing its most interesting aspect: mathematical modeling and analysis of theoretical computational complexity for different problems in elastic optical networks. Finally, this book addresses the research challenges and open issues in EONs and provides future directions for future research.