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most citedCost and Power-Consumption Analysis for Power Profile Monitoring with Multiple Monitors per Link in Optical Networks

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cs.NI2026

Measurement-Device Placement in MDI-QKD Networks with Minimal Trusted Relays

Tianqu Luo, Ibrahim Arslantas, Sezin Ozturk +8

Measurement-Device-Independent Quantum Key Distribution (MDI-QKD) removes detector side-channel vulnerabilities by delegating measurements to an untrusted relay that, when shared b…

cs.NI2026

LLMs and Optical Networks: A Symbiotic Relationship

Mëmëdhe Ibrahimi, Qiaolun Zhang, Giovanni S. Sticca +3

This paper explores the emerging symbiosis between LLMs and optical networks. Massive LLMs require geo-distributed training, which demands advanced optical transport capabilities t…

quant-ph2025

Routing and Wavelength Assignment with Minimal Attack Radius for QKD Networks

Mengyao Li, Qiaolun Zhang, Zongshuai Yang +4

Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) can distribute keys with guaranteed security but remains susceptible to key exchange interruption due to physical-layer threats, such as high-power j…

cs.NI2025

Multi-Failure Localization in High-Degree ROADM-based Optical Networks using Rules-Informed Neural Networks

Ruikun Wang, Qiaolun Zhang, Jiawei Zhang +7

To accommodate ever-growing traffic, network operators are actively deploying high-degree reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexers (ROADMs) to build large-capacity optical netw…

cs.NI2024

A Power-Consumption Analysis for Different IPoWDM Network Architectures with ZR/ZR+ and Long-Haul Muxponders

Qiaolun Zhang, Annalisa Morea, Massimo Tornatore

We quantify and compare the power consumption of four IPoWDM transport network architectures employing ZR/ZR+ modules, considering different grooming, regeneration, and optical byp…

cs.NI2024

Poster: Flexible Scheduling of Network and Computing Resources for Distributed AI Tasks

Ruikun Wang, Jiawei Zhang, Qiaolun Zhang +5

Many emerging Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications require on-demand provisioning of large-scale computing, which can only be enabled by leveraging distributed computing servi…

cs.NI2024

Shared-Protected Backup Paths Assignment with Mode Group Division Multiplexing in Optical Networks

Jiaheng Xiong, Qiaolun Zhang, Ruikun Wang +3

We evaluate the resource efficiency of Mode Group Division Multiplexing (MGDM) with shared path protection (SPP) in optical networks. On our case studies, SPP with MGDM obtains sig…

cs.NI2024★ 2 cited

Cost and Power-Consumption Analysis for Power Profile Monitoring with Multiple Monitors per Link in Optical Networks

Qiaolun Zhang, Patricia Layec, Alix May +3

As deploying large amounts of monitoring equipment results in elevated cost and power consumption, novel low-cost monitoring methods are being continuously investigated. A new tech…