Best Paper Awards


Adam C. Funnel, David Butler, Georgios Zervas, “Reconfigurable optical star network architecture for multicast media production data centres”, Optical Switching and Networking, Vol. 36, February 2020, 2020 Elsevier Optical Switching and Networking Fabio Neri best paper award

Paris Andreades, Kari Clark, Phil M Watts, Georgios Zervas, “Experimental demonstration of an ultra-low latency control plane for optical packet switching in data center networks”, Elsevier, Optical Switching and Networking, Vol. 32, pp. 51-60, January 2019 2018 Elsevier Optical Switching and Networking Fabio Neri runner-up award

A Peters, E Hugues-Salas, M Gunkel, G Zervas, “Key performance indicators for elastic optical transponders and ROADMs: The role of flexibility”, Optical Switching and Networking 25, 1-12, 2017 Elsevier Optical Switching and Networking Fabio Neri best paper award

Norberto Amaya, G. S. Zervas, Bijan Rahimzadeh Rofoee, Muhammad Irfan, Yixuan Qin, Dimitra Simeonidou, “Field Trial of a 1.5 Tb/s Adaptive and Gridless OXC Supporting Elastic 1000-Fold Bandwidth Granularity”, 37th European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC 2011), We.9.K.2, Geneva, Switzerland, Sept. 2011, Fabio Neri Best Networking Paper Award

Selected Invited Talks

  1. Optical network technologies for heterogeneous and disaggregated data centres, Workshop on The role of computing in the post 5G-era: Architectures and enabling technologies, ONDM 2020

  2. Sub-microsecond optical circuit switched networks for Data Centers and HPCs, invited talk at Supercomputing Conference, Photonics session, 2019

  3. Multi-Core Fiber Switching and Networking, invited talk, EXAT, Japan, 2019

  4. PULSE: Sub-microsecond optical circuit switched Data Center network, IEEE Photonics in Switching and Computing, Japan, 2019

  5. Data Center landscape beyond Moore’s Law: Challenges and solutions towards deterministic nanosecond speed optical networking”, talk on Workshop on Fast Switching Technologies and architectural considerations for Data Center Networks, IEEE Photonics in Switching and Computing, September 2018

  6. Disaggregated compute, memory and network systems: A new era for optical data centre architectures”, Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC), 2017

  7. Network, Compute and Storage Function Programmability and Virtualization: An FPGA-based Disaggregated System”, OSA Asia Communications and Photonics Conference, Nov 2016

  8. Disaggregated and Programmable Optical Data Center Networks, OSA advanced photonics congress, Photonic Networks and Devices, July 2015

  9. Network Function Programmability and Software-Defined Synthetic Optical Networks for Data Centres and Future Internet”, OSA Advanced Photonics for Communications Congress, Photonics in Switching (PS), July 2014

  10. Programmable Photonics: A New Dawn for Future Internet, ICCMSE 2014 – 10th International Conference of Computational Methods in Sciences and Engineering, Athens, April 2014

  11. Enabling High Performance Cloud Services through Optical Layer Programmability and Virtualization, Symposium on Enabling the Cloud: Datacenter Network Infrastructure, OSA Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC), San Francisco, USA, 2014

  12. Cognitive Optical Networks: Needs, Requirements and Architectures, International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), Munich, Germany, June 2010

  13. 18. Juan Fernandez-Palacios, Georgios Zervas, Mark Basham, "Power Efficient Transport Architectures based on Multigranular Photonic Switching Technologies and Service to Network Interworking" in Future Network & Mobile Summit, 2010

  14. Service-oriented sub-wavelength optical networks, TNC2010, Vilnius, Lithuania, June 2010

  15. Cognitive Optical Networks”, International Conference on Advanced Intelligence And Awareness Internet”, AIAI2010, Beijing, China, October 2010

  16. Programmable Multi-Granular Optical Networks: Requirements and Architecture”, ICST Conference on Broadband Communications (BROADNETS), Madrid, Sept. 2009

  17. Service Oriented Optical Burst Switched Edge and Core Routers for Future Internet", the 2008 International Workshop on Optical Burst/Packet Switching (WOBS), September 2008, UK