Communication Networks

Publication at the ITGNews 04/2024

October 2024: The new issue of the INFORMATIONSTECHNISCHE GESELLSCHAFT IM VDE contains an article on “Research and developments in optical communication networks” by Prof. Carmen Mas Machuca (pages5-7). Current deployment of optical networks covers worldwide more than 16 million kilometers in new sectors like data centers, and intercontinental communications (submarine and satellite), which has expanded their versatility, usefulness, and value. In all segments (transport, metro, access), optical networks continue to face challenges towards high-capacity architectures with low energy consumption, limited cost, high reliability, guaranteed security and sovereignty, etc. Future optical networks must be capable of supporting all of the aforementioned capabilities, while facilitating interoperability among vendors and enabling operators to offer new services with sovereignty and trustworthiness.
The link to the Dokument: https://www.vde.com/resource/blob/2352654/6c0ad017f4666307f5bb5b4d3dd4c12f/itg-news-oktober-2024-download-data.pdf

Women in Photonics event at ECOC 2024

September 25th, 2024: Dr. Anjali Sharma, Prof. Anna Lena Schall-Giesecke, Dr. Elena Nöke and Prof. Carmen Mas Machuca have organized the “Women in Photonics” Panel and Luncheon at ECOC 2024. The topics this year was Empowerment Bridge: Taking Cognizance from Leading Ladies in Photonics and Optics. The panelists Camille-Sophie Bres (EPFL), Myriam Recha (Google), Claudia Hoessbacher (Polariton) and Julie Eng (Coherent Corp) shared their experiences driven by discussion lead by Dr. Michela Svaluto Moreolo (CTTC). After the exciting panel, the participants enjoyed more discussions over a lunch sponsored by Optica.
The link of the event is: https://www.ecoc2024.org/special-events/women-in-photonics/

Best Paper Award IEEE CQR 2024

September 12th, 2024: Shakthivelu Janardhanan, Ph.D. student of Prof. Carmen Mas Machuca, received the best student paper award for the paper “PyRBD: An Open-Source Reliability Block Diagram Evaluation Tool". The award criteria was the paper quality as well as the presentation.
Reliability Block Diagrams (RBDs) are pictorial representations that evaluate a system’s availability by considering its components and their interconnections. This work presents and evaluates an open-source tool, PyRBD, to (i) generate RBDs from topologies, (ii) decompose RBDs for faster processing, and (iii) calculate flow availabilities.
This work has been funded by the Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs, Regional Development, and Energy under the project ‘6G Future Lab Bavaria’ as well as the BMBF FRONT-RUNNER project (grant ID 16KISR009).
The link of the conference is https://cqr2024.ieee-cqr.org