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Publications (7)

cs.NI2026

Beyond Redundancy: Toward Agile Resilience in Optical Networks to Overcome Unpredictable Disasters

Toru Mano, Hideki Nishizawa, Takeo Sasai +9

Resilience in optical networks has traditionally relied on redundancy and pre-planned recovery strategies, both of which assume a certain level of disaster predictability. However,…

eess.SY2026

Optical Network Digital Twin -- Practical Use Cases and Architecture

Hideki Nishizawa, Toru Mano, Kazuya Anazawa +17

With the widespread adoption of AI, machine-to-machine communications are rapidly increasing, reshaping the requirements for optical networks. Recent advances in Gaussian noise mod…

eess.SY2024

Fast WDM provisioning with minimal probing: the first field experiments for DC exchanges

Hideki Nishizawa, Toru Mano, Thomas Ferreira De Lima +16

We propose an approach to estimate the end-to-end GSNR accurately in a short time when a data center interconnect (DCI) network operator receives a service request from users, not…

cs.NI2022

Dynamic optical path provisioning for alien access links: architecture, demonstration, and challenges

Hideki Nishizawa, Takeo Sasai, Takeru Inoue +6

With the spread of Data Center Interconnect (DCI) and local 5G, there is a growing need for dynamically established connections between customer locations through high-capacity opt…

eess.SY2026

Leveraging Digital Twin Technologies: All-Photonics Networks-as-a-Service for Data Center Xchange in the Era of AI [Invited Tutorial]

Hideki Nishizawa, Kazuya Anazawa, Tetsuro Inui +8

This paper presents a data center exchange (Data Center Xchange, DCX) architecture for all-photonics networks-as-a-service in distributed data center infrastructures, enabling the…

eess.SY2024

Semi-Automatic Line-System Provisioning with Integrated Physical-Parameter-Aware Methodology: Field Verification and Operational Feasibility

Hideki Nishizawa, Giacomo Borraccini, Takeo Sasai +17

We propose methods and an architecture to conduct measurements and optimize newly installed optical fiber line systems semi-automatically using integrated physics-aware technologie…

cs.NI2025

Experimental Evaluation of an SDN Controller for Open Optical-circuit-switched Networks

Kazuya Anazawa, Takeru Inoue, Toru Mano +12

Open optical networks have been considered to be important for cost-effectively building and operating the networks. Recently, the optical-circuit-switches (OCSes) have attracted i…