Guest Editorial Latest Advances in Optical Networks for 5G Communications and beyond
Review article, 2021
This Special Issue contains a collection of outstanding papers covering several recent advances in optical networks for 5G communications and beyond. Papers are organized into four categories: network resource planning; optical access networks; optical fronthaul solutions; and autonomous and data-driven network management. In this introduction, a brief overview of the field is given, followed by a summary of the seventeen papers of this Special Issue, and a discussion of future directions in the field.
physical layer security
network functions virtualization (NFV)
fronthaul
free space optics
Optical networks
software-defined networking (SDN)
telemetry
machine learning
Author
M. Tornatore
Polytechnic University of Milan
Elaine Wong
University of Melbourne
Zuqing Zhu
University of Science and Technology of China
Ramon Casellas
Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC)
Balagangadhar G. Bathula
AT&T Labs
Lena Wosinska
Chalmers, Electrical Engineering, Communication, Antennas and Optical Networks
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
0733-8716 (ISSN) 15580008 (eISSN)
Vol. 39 9 2667-2671 9516454Subject Categories
Telecommunications
Landscape Architecture
Communication Systems
DOI
10.1109/JSAC.2021.3094600