Network Coding in Photonic-land: Three Commandments for Future-proof Optical Core Networks
Hai Dao

TL;DR
This paper proposes integrating network coding into optical core networks to enhance capacity efficiency amid the capacity crunch, reviewing recent research and outlining three key principles for future implementation.
Contribution
It introduces a novel perspective on using network coding in optical networks, highlighting three critical aspects for practical deployment and future research directions.
Findings
Network coding can serve as a new multiplexing dimension.
Algorithmic design is crucial for NC-enabled optical networks.
NC offers a new approach for securing optical signals at physical layers.
Abstract
The digital transformation has been underway, creating digital shadows of (almost) all physical entities and moving them to the Internet. The era of Internet of Everything has therefore started to come into play, giving rise to unprecedented traffic growths. In this context, optical core networks forming the backbone of Internet infrastructure have been under critical issues of reaching the capacity limit of conventional fiber, a phenomenon widely referred as capacity crunch. For many years, the many-fold increases in fiber capacity is thanks to exploiting physical dimensions for multiplexing optical signals such as wavelength, polarization, time and lately space-division multiplexing using multi-core fibers and such route seems to come to an end as almost all known ways have been exploited. This necessitates for a departure from traditional approaches to use the fiber capacity more…
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Taxonomy
TopicsCooperative Communication and Network Coding · Advanced Wireless Communication Technologies · Full-Duplex Wireless Communications
