We review the application of intelligent coherent bandwidth-variable transceiver (BVT) with flexibilities in both bandwidth and spectral efficiency (SE) in software-defined elastic optical networks (SD-EONs). Machine learning techniques can be adopted to configure BVTs in diverse and dynamic optical networks.
Jason P. JueVincenzo EramoVı́ctor LópezZuqing Zhu
Michał AibinKrzysztof WalkowiakArunabha Sen
Yawei YinLei LiuRoberto ProiettiS. J. Ben Yoo