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First Demonstration of 25λ x 10 Gb/s C+L Band Classical / DV-QKD Co-Existence Over Single Bidirectional Fiber Link
Florian Honz, Florian Prawits, Obada Alia +11
As quantum key distribution has reached the maturity level for practical deployment, questions about the co-integration with existing classical communication systems are of utmost…
Incremental DRL-Based Resource Management for Dynamic Network Slicing in an Urban-Wide Testbed
Haiyuan Li, Yuelin Liu, Hari Madhukumar +6
Multi-access edge computing provides localized resources within mobile networks to address the requirements of emerging latency-sensitive and computing-intensive applications. At t…
DRL-based Energy-Efficient Baseband Function Deployments for Service-Oriented Open RAN
Haiyuan Li, Amin Emami, Karcius Assis +5
Open Radio Access Network (Open RAN) has gained tremendous attention from industry and academia with decentralized baseband functions across multiple processing units located at di…
Demonstration of 17λ x 10 Gb/s C-Band Classical / DV-QKD Co-Existence Over Hollow-Core Fiber Link
Florian Honz, Florian Prawits, Obada Alia +11
We successfully integrate coherent one-way QKD at 1538 nm in a 7.7 km long hollow-core fiber link with 17 EDFA-boosted C-band data channels from 1540.56 to 1558.17 nm, aggregating…
DV-QKD Coexistence With 1.6 Tbps Classical Channels Over Hollow Core Fibre
Obada Alia, Rodrigo S Tessinari, Sima Bahrani +11
The feasibility of coexisting a quantum channel with carrier-grade classical optical channels over Hollow Core Nested Antiresonant Nodeless Fibre (HC-NANF) is experimentally explor…
Dynamic DV-QKD Networking in Fully-Meshed Software-Defined Optical Networks
Obada Alia, Rodrigo Stange Tessinari, Emilio Hugues-Salas +3
We demonstrate for the first time a four-node trusted-node-free metro network configuration with dynamic discrete-variable quantum key distribution DV-QKD networking capabilities a…
1.6 Tbps Classical Channel Coexistence With DV-QKD Over Hollow Core Nested Antiresonant Nodeless Fibre (HC-NANF)
O. Alia, R. S. Tessinari, T. D. Bradley +10
We demonstrate for the first time the coexistence of a quantum-channel and 8x200 Gpbs 16-QAM optical channels with launching powers as high as -9dBm per channel in a 2 km HC-NANF.…
End-to-end Quantum Secured Inter-Domain 5G Service Orchestration Over Dynamically Switched Flex-Grid Optical Networks Enabled by a q-ROADM
Rui Wang, Rodrigo Stange Tessinari, Emilio Hugues Salas +10
Dynamic and flexible optical networking enabled by NFV and SDN are the key technology enablers for supporting the dynamicity and bandwidth requirements of emerging 5G network servi…
Coexistence of 11.2Tb/s Carrier-Grade Classical Channels and a DV-QKD Channel over a 7-Core Multicore Fibre
Emilio Hugues-Salas, Qibing Wang, Rui Wang +4
We successfully demonstrate coexistence of record-high 11.2 Tb/s (56x200Gb/s) classical channels with a discrete-variable-QKD channel over a multicore fibre. Continuous secret key…
Atomic-SDN: Is Synchronous Flooding the Solution to Software-Defined Networking in IoT?
Michael Baddeley, Usman Raza, Aleksandar Stanoev +4
The adoption of Software Defined Networking (SDN) within traditional networks has provided operators the ability to manage diverse resources and easily reconfigure networks as requ…
Evolving SDN for Low-Power IoT Networks
Michael Baddeley, Reza Nejabati, George Oikonomou +2
Software Defined Networking (SDN) offers a flexible and scalable architecture that abstracts decision making away from individual devices and provides a programmable network platfo…
Isolating SDN Control Traffic with Layer-2 Slicing in 6TiSCH Industrial IoT Networks
Michael Baddeley, Reza Nejabati, George Oikonomou +3
Recent standardization efforts in IEEE 802.15.4-2015 Time Scheduled Channel Hopping (TSCH) and the IETF 6TiSCH Working Group (WG), aim to provide deterministic communications and e…
Field-Trial of Machine Learning-Assisted Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) Networking with SDN
Y. Ou, E. Hugues-Salas, F. Ntavou +6
We demonstrated, for the first time, a machine-learning method to assist the coexistence between quantum and classical communication channels. Software-defined networking was used…
Experimental Demonstration of DDoS Mitigation over a Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) Network Using Software Defined Networking (SDN)
Emilio Hugues-Salas, Foteini Ntavou, Yanni Ou +9
We experimentally demonstrate, for the first time, DDoS mitigation of QKD-based networks utilizing a software defined network application. Successful quantum-secured link allocatio…
Optical Network Virtualisation using Multi-technology Monitoring and SDN-enabled Optical Transceiver
Yanni Ou, Matthew Davis, Alejandro Aguado +3
We introduce the real-time multi-technology transport layer monitoring to facilitate the coordinated virtualisation of optical and Ethernet networks supported by optical virtualise…
Seer: Empowering Software Defined Networking with Data Analytics
Kyriakos Sideris, Reza Nejabati, Dimitra Simeonidou
Network complexity is increasing, making network control and orchestration a challenging task. The proliferation of network information and tools for data analytics can provide an…
First Experimental Demonstration of Secure NFV Orchestration over an SDN-Controlled Optical Network with Time-Shared Quantum Key Distribution Resources
Alejandro Aguado, Emilio Hugues-Salas, Paul Anthony Haigh +10
We demonstrate, for the first time, a secure optical network architecture that combines NFV orchestration and SDN control with quantum key distribution (QKD) technology. A novel ti…