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ACNLAdvanced Communication Networks Laboratory

Insights

204 publications, read as one body of work

What the lab has worked on, with what, and with whom, from its own record since 2002. The themes below are sized by how many of the 204 paper titles touch them; click one to see the papers.

optical burst switching: 48 of 204 papersoptical burst switchingmanycast and anycast: 35 of 204 papersmanycast and anycastwavelength routing: 27 of 204 paperswavelength routingsurvivability and protection: 25 of 204 paperssurvivability and protectionwireless sensor networks: 24 of 204 paperswireless sensor networksadvance reservation: 21 of 204 papersadvance reservationreliability: 17 of 204 papersreliabilityenergy and carbon: 17 of 204 papersenergy and carbonelastic optical networks: 16 of 204 paperselastic optical networkssmart grid: 16 of 204 paperssmart gridquality of service: 16 of 204 papersquality of servicemulticast: 13 of 204 papersmulticastTCP over optical: 13 of 204 papersTCP over opticalscheduling: 13 of 204 papersschedulingresilience: 11 of 204 papersresiliencemachine learning and AI: 9 of 204 papersmachine learning and AIdata centers and cloud: 7 of 204 papersdata centers and cloudscience networks: 7 of 204 papersscience networksquality of transmission: 6 of 204 papersquality of transmissionsimulation and benchmarking: 3 of 204 paperssimulation and benchmarking6G and edge: 3 of 204 papers6G and edge

Papers per year

2002: 4200242003: 10102004: 5200452005: 992006: 4200642007: 772008: 8200882009: 662010: 112010112011: 14142012: 172012172013: 10102014: 142014142015: 992016: 112016112017: 13132018: 8201882019: 332020: 5202052021: 12022: 3202232023: 992024: 6202462025: 11112026: 620266

204 publications, 64 in journals. The record is the director's CV; 157 of the papers are read and summarized on the center's research record.

Research threads

Advance reservation: 31Advance reservation31Wireless sensor: 26Wireless sensor26OBS contention: 23OBS contention23Manycast: 23Manycast23Elastic: 19Elastic19Smart grid resilience: 19Smart grid resilience19Energy: 16Energy16Survivability: 14Survivability14TCP over OBS: 14TCP over OBS14Reliability modeling: 3Reliability modeling3OBS architecture: 2OBS architectureOnline social network : 2Online social network Data center: 2Data centerEdge computing: 2Edge computingMachine learning for n: 2Machine learning for nTools: 2ToolsPhysical layer modelin: 2Physical layer modelinGrid: 1GridOptical packet switchi: 1Optical packet switchi
  • Advance reservation and scheduling31 publications
  • Wireless sensor and access networks26 publications
  • OBS contention and QoS23 publications
  • Manycast and anycast23 publications
  • Elastic and SDM optical networks19 publications
  • Smart grid resilience and security19 publications
  • Energy and carbon-aware networking16 publications
  • Survivability and protection14 publications
  • TCP over OBS14 publications
  • Reliability modeling3 publications
  • OBS architecture2 publications
  • Online social network privacy2 publications
  • Data center and cloud networking2 publications
  • Edge computing and IoT2 publications
  • Machine learning for networks2 publications
  • Tools and reproducibility2 publications
  • Physical layer modeling2 publications
  • Grid and e-science networking1 publications
  • Optical packet switching1 publications

How the work is done

Counted from the 157 papers that have been read; a paper can use several.

Methods

  • simulation139 papers
  • heuristic78 papers
  • ILP/MILP54 papers
  • analytical model40 papers
  • metaheuristic25 papers
  • testbed/experiment11 papers
  • deep learning10 papers
  • reinforcement learning8 papers
  • game theory1 papers

Tools and platforms

  • ESnet24 papers
  • MATLAB13 papers
  • Gurobi12 papers
  • CPLEX8 papers
  • ns-28 papers
  • FUSION7 papers
  • OSCARS6 papers
  • Gym environments3 papers
  • OMNeT++2 papers
  • GENI1 papers

What is measured

  • blocking probability59 papers
  • burst/packet loss39 papers
  • energy/power37 papers
  • carbon/emissions34 papers
  • throughput30 papers
  • restoration30 papers
  • accuracy/F125 papers
  • fragmentation23 papers
  • OSNR/GSNR/QoT20 papers
  • BER18 papers

Network topologies

  • NSFNET70 papers
  • USNET34 papers
  • ESnet backbone24 papers
  • Torus/ring/mesh (synthetic)12 papers
  • IEEE bus system12 papers
  • Pan-European6 papers
  • German3 papers
  • JPN12/481 papers

Who the lab writes with

  • J.P. Jue27 joint publications
  • L. Xing22 joint publications
  • N. Charbonneau19 joint publications
  • Y. Sun15 joint publications
  • Y. Lin15 joint publications
  • A. Rezaee14 joint publications
  • Q. Zhang10 joint publications
  • Arash Deylamsalehi10 joint publications
  • Pegah Afsharlar9 joint publications
  • R. McCann9 joint publications
  • B.G. Bathula8 joint publications
  • R.R.C. Bikram8 joint publications

123 of the 204 publications have a student of the lab as first author. The director's Google Scholar profile lists 5,961 citations, an h-index of 35, and an i10-index of 88, as of 2026-09-21.

The center's Insights page places the lab's recent work among the center's 14 research clusters, and the collaboration graph shows who the director works with across the center.