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HORIZON-MSCA-DN Next gEneration high-Speed opTical netwOrks foR metro access (NESTOR)
The Doctorate Network NESTOR will advanced training to 10 Fellows with PhD projects significantly expanding the flexibility and capacity of access/metro networks.
NESTOR harnesses the complementary expertise of top academic groups (Aston, PoliTO, UPC, SSSA, and TU/e) and core telecom industry (Infinera, BT, Orange, SM-Optics,
VPI and Ericsson). NESTOR will provide Fellows with a uniquely broad education ranging from recent advances in ML/AI to real-world telecom engineering.
NESTOR will start recuiting January 2024
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Special Issue on Advances in Multi-Band Optical Networks
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The scope of the special issue includes but is not limited to the following topics:
- Vendors' and operators' view on the deployment of MB optical transmission;
- Evaluation of high-capacity optical transmission solutions, including MB, and how they could integrate with the IP layer;
- Optical support for B5G/6G front-haul mid-haul and cost analysis, including energy consumption;
- Experiments related to optical transmission in the S, E, and O bands, together with commercially available C+L bands;
- Novel optical MB transmission and switching schemes and architectures, e.g., novel applications of sliceable BVTs and pluggable optics, including P2MP connectivity;
- Centralized vs. distributed vs. hierarchical architectures for control and telemetry;
- Zero-touch networking (ZTN) and machine-learning based applications for MB optical networks;
- Monitoring and telemetry in multi-layer / multi-domain / multi-band / multi-technology networks open/disaggregated optical systems;
- Digital twins modeling the optical layer and their application for planning, control and orchestration;
- Near real-time control of optical MB network resources.
Submission Deadline: 1 April 2023
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Special Issue on Secure and Reliable Autonomous Optical Communications and Networks
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The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Cost-effective high-capacity technologies, including multi-band (MB)
- Novel optical transmission and switching schemes and architectures
- Pervasive telemetry
- ML in Optical Communications and Networks
- Energy consumption minimization
- Highly reliable optical communications
- Optical networks programmability
- Optical wide and metro -area network management
- Optical communications at the network edge supporting 5G/6G
- Security aspects of optical communications, including Quantum Key Disytribution (QKD)
Submission Deadline: 20 April 2023
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"OCATA: A Deep Learning-based Digital Twin for the Optical Time Domain,"
IEEE/OPTICA Journal of Optical Communications and Networking (JOCN), 2023.
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"Cost-Effective ML-Powered Polarization-Encoded Quantum Key Distribution,"
IEEE/OPTICA Journal of Lightwave Technology (JLT), 2022.
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I have been invited to give a talk during OFC 2023 entitled "Is Intelligence the Answer to Deal with the 5 V's of Telemetry Data?".
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In this talk, I will show the different characteristics of Telemetry for optical networking and how taking advantage from intelligence data processing can greately simplify telemetry architecture.
The conference will run from 5 - 9 March 2023 at the San Diego Convention Center, San Diego, California, USA.
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I have been invited to give a talk during ONDM 2023 entitled "Applications of Digital Twin for Autonomous Zero-Touch Optical Networking".
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In this talk, I will introduce two of the applications of Optical Layer Digital Twins, namely misconfiguration detection and QoT estimation.
Illustrative results show the accuracy and usefulness of the proposed aplications.
The conference will run from 8 - 11 May 2023 at the Department of Mathematics, of the Faculty of Sciences and Technology of the University of Coimbra, Portugal.
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I have been invited to give a talk during ICC 2023 entitled "Real-time Autonomous Optical Network Operation: from Vision to Development in B5G-OPEN".
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In this talk, I will present novel architectures and solutions designed and developed in B5G-OPEN to enable autonomous network operation in 6G networks.
In particular, real-time operation requires the development of several technologies that heavily rely on AI/ML, including:
- Distributed telemetry system implementing intelligent data aggregation to reduce data volume.
- Digital twin able to accurately model the data plane.
- Real-time closed-loop automation.
The conference will run from 28 May to 01 June 2023 in Rome, Italy.
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Challenges of optical communications in the 6G era: a view from EU projects co-located with ONDM 2023 to be held in Coimbra, Portugal
Organizers:
- Luis Velasco, Univ. Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
- Joao Pedro, Infinera, Portugal
- Marc Ruiz, Univ. Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
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Beyond-5G Network Operation (B5GNeO) workshop co-located with ICTON 2023 to be held in Bucharest, Romania
The 2023 edition will be focused on B5G networking
Organizers:
- Luis Velasco, Univ. Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
- Marc Ruiz, Univ. Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
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