Slavisa Aleksic

TL;DR: The results show that implementation in optics is generally more power efficient; especially circuit-switched architectures have a low power consumption and when taking into account possible future developments of Si CMOS technology, even very large electronic packet routers having capacities of more than hundreds of terabits per second seem to be feasible.

TL;DR: Three major types of passive optical interconnects are presented and a performance assessment is carried out with respect to the ability to host data center traffic, scalability, optical power budget, complexity of the required interface, cost, and energy consumption.

TL;DR: This work proposes a novel data center network architecture realized by combining broadcast-and-select approach with elastic channel spacing technology that is able to scale efficiently with the number of servers and offers lower energy consumption at a competitive cost compared to the existing solutions.

TL;DR: A proposal for a smooth integration of QKD in optical metro networks, which implies removing spurious background photons caused by optical transmitters, amplifiers and nonlinear effects in fibers, is presented and discussed.

TL;DR: A novel model for evaluating the energy efficiency of combined optical/wireless networks is presented that takes into account the main architectural and implementational aspects of both RF wireless and optical parts of the access network.