Title
Guest Editorial Latest Advances in Optical Networks for 5G Communications and Beyond
Abstract
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.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1109/JSAC.2021.3094600
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Optical networks,machine learning,fronthaul,telemetry,free space optics,physical layer security,software-defined networking (SDN),network functions virtualization (NFV)
Journal
39
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
9
0733-8716
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Massimo Tornatore1902124.35
Elaine Wong24410.94
Zuqing Zhu356673.36
R. Casellas415349.06
Balagangadhar G. Bathula5104.32
Lena Wosinska641.79