Publications

Dr. Furdek has published 33 journal papers, 74 conference papers, 8 book chapters, 6 guest editorials, and has given 25 invited talks at international conferences and 20 popular-science and guest lectures. According to Google Scholar, as of January 2023, the publications have received 1430+ citations, yielding an h-index of 19.

Journal papers:

1. Carlos Natalino, Marco Schiano, Andrea Di Giglio, Marija Furdek, “Root Cause Analysis for Autonomous Optical Network Security Management,” IEEE Transactions on Network Service and Management, vol. 19, no. 3, pp. 2702-2713, Sept. 2022.

2. Yuchuan Fan, Xiaodan Pang, Aleksejs Udalcovs, Carlos Natalino, Lu Zhang, Sandis Spolitis, Vjaceslavs Brobovs, Richard Schatz, Xianbin Yu, Marija Furdek, Sergei Popov, Oskars Ozolins, “Linear Regression vs. Deep Learning for Signal Quality Monitoring in Coherent Optical Systems,” IEEE Photonics Journal, vol. 14, no. 4, pp. 1-8, Aug. 2022. Open Access.

3. Yuchuan Fan, Xiaodan Pang, Aleksejs Udalcovs, Carlos Natalino, Lu Zhang, Vjaceslavs Brobovs, Richard Schatz, Xianbin Yu, Marija Furdek, Sergei Popov, Oskars Ozolins, “Feedforward Neural Network-based EVM Estimation: Impairment Tolerance in Coherent Optical Systems,” IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, vol. 28, no. 4, pp. 1-10, August 2022. Open Access.

4. Forough Yaghoubi, Marija Furdek, Ahmad Rostami, Peter Öhlén, Lena Wosinska, “Design and reliability performance of wireless networks under correlated failures,” IEEE Transactions on Reliability, 10.1109/TR.2021.3082995.

5. Yuchuan Fan, Aleksejs Udalcovs, Carlos Natalino, Xiaodan Pang, Richard Schatz, Marija Furdek, Sergei Popov, Oskars Ozolins, “Experimental Validation of CNN vs. FFNN for Time- and Energy-Efficient EVM Estimation in Coherent Optical Systems,” IEEE/OSA Journal of Optical Communications and Networking, vol. 13, no. 10, pp. E63-E71, October 2021. 10.1364/JOCN.423384. Top downloaded paper in January 2022.

6. Carlos Natalino, Aleksejs Udalcovs, Lena Wosinska, Oskars Ozolins, Marija Furdek, “Spectrum Anomaly Detection for Optical Network Monitoring using Deep Unsupervised Learning,” IEEE Communication Letters, vol. 25, no. 5, pp. 1583-1586, May 2021. 10.1109/LCOMM.2021.3055064

7. Yuchuan Fan, Aleksejs Udalcovs, Xiaodan Pang, Carlos Natalino, Marija Furdek, Sergei Popov, Oskars Ozolins, “Fast signal quality monitoring for coherent communications enabled by CNN-based EVM estimation,” IEEE/OSA Journal of Optical Communications and Networking, Special Issue on Machine learning applied to QoT estimation in optical networks, B12-B20, vol. 13, no. 4, April 2021. 10.1364/JOCN.409704

8. Chathurika Ranaweera, Ampalavanapillai Nirmalathas, Elaine Wong, Christina Lim, Paolo Monti, Marija Furdek, Lena Wosinska, Björn Skubic, Carmen Mas Machuca, “Rethinking of Optical Transport Network Design for 5G/6G Mobile Communication,” IEEE Future Networks Tech Focus, Issue 12, April 2021.

9. Marija Furdek, Carlos Natalino, Andrea Di Giglio, Marco Schiano, “Optical network security management: requirements, architecture and efficient machine learning models for detection of evolving threats [Invited],” IEEE/OSA Journal of Optical Communications and Networking, OFC 2020 Special Issue, vol. 13, no. 2, pp. A144-A155, Feb 2021, invited paper. 10.1364/JOCN.402884

10. Marija Furdek, Carlos Natalino, Fabian Lipp, David Hock, Andrea Di Giglio, Marco Schiano, “Machine learning for optical network security monitoring: A practical perspective,” IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology, ECOC 2019 Special Issue, vol. 38, no. 11, pp. 2860-2871, April 2020, invited paper.

11. Carlos Natalino Silva, Amaro de Sousa, Lena Wosinska, Marija Furdek, “Content Placement in 5G-enabled Edge/Core Datacenter Networks Resilient to Link Cut Attacks,” Wiley Networks, Special Issue on Resilience of Communication Networks to Random Failures and Disasters, vol. 75, no. 4, pp. 392-404, June 2020, Open Access.

12. Carlos Natalino Silva, Marco Schiano, Andrea Di Giglio, Lena Wosinska, Marija Furdek, “Experimental study of machine-learning-based detection and identification of physical-layer attacks in optical networks,” IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology, vol. 37, no. 16, pp. 4173-4182, Aug. 2019.

13. Chaturika Ranaweera, Paolo Monti, Björn Skubic, Elaine Wong, Marija Furdek, Lena Wosinska, Carmen Mas Machuca, Ampalanavanapillai Nirmalathas, Christina Lim, “Optical transport network design for 5G fixed wireless access,” IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology, vol. 37, no. 16, pp. 3893-3901, Aug. 2019.

14. Carlos Natalino Silva, Aysegul Yayimli, Lena Wosinska, Marija Furdek, "Infrastructure upgrade framework for content delivery networks robust to targeted attacks," Optical Switching and Networking, vol. 31, pp. 202-210, Jan. 2019.

15. Vahid Abedifar, Marija Furdek, Ajmal Muhammad, Mohammad Eshghi, Lena Wosinska, "Routing, Modulation and Spectrum Assignment in programmable networks based on optical white boxes," IEEE/OSA Journal of Optical Communications and Networking, vol. 10, no. 9, pp. 723-735, Sept. 2018.

16. Forough Yaghoubi, Marija Furdek, Ahmad Rostami, Peter Öhlén, Lena Wosinska, "Consistency-aware weather disruption-tolerant routing in SDN-based wireless mesh networks," IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 582-595, June 2018.

17. Hui Yuan, Marija Furdek, Ajmal Muhammad, Lena Wosinska, Georgios Zervas, "Space Division Multiplexing in data centre networks: On multi-core fibre solutions and crosstalk suppressed resource allocation," IEEE/OSA Journal of Optical Communications and Networking, vol. 10, no. 4, pp. 272-288, Apr. 2018. Featured as one of top downloaded papers of JOCN.

18. Matija Džanko, Branko Mikac, Marija Furdek, "Dedicated path protection for optical networks based on function programmable nodes," Optical Switching and Networking, vol. 27, pp. 79-87, Jan. 2018.

19. Ajmal Muhammad, Nina Skorin-Kapov, Marija Furdek, "Manycast, Anycast and Replica Placement (MARP) in optical inter-datacenter networks," IEEE/OSA Journal of Optical Communications and Networking, vol. 9, no. 12, pp. 1161-1171, Dec. 2017.

20. Federico Tonini, Matteo Fiorani, Marija Furdek, Carla Rafaelli, Lena Wosinska, and Paolo Monti, "Radio and transport planning of centralized radio architectures in 5G indoor scenarios," IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, special issue on Deployment issues and performance challenges for 5G, vol. 35, no. 8, pp. 1837-1848, Aug. 2017.

21. M. Ruffini, M. Achouche, A. Arbelaez, R. Bonk, A. Di Giglio, N. J. Doran, M. Furdek, R. Jensen, J. Montalvo, N. Parsons, T. Pfeiffer, L. Quesada, C. Raack, H. Rohde, M. Schiano, G. Talli, P. Townsend, R. Wessaly, L. Wosinska, X. Yin and D.B. Payne, "Access and metro network convergence for flexible end to end network design [invited]," IEEE/OSA Journal of Optical Communications and Networking, vol. 9, no. 6, pp. 524-535, June 2017.

22. Elena Grigoreva, Elaine Wong, Marija Furdek, Lena Wosinska, and Carmen Mas Machuca, "Energy Consumption and Reliability Performance of Survivable Passive Optical Converged Networks: Public ITS Case Study," IEEE/OSA Journal of Optical Communications and Networking, special issue on Photonic Networks and Devices, vol. 9, no. 4, pp. C98-C107, April 2017.

23. Avishek Nag, Marija Furdek, Paolo Monti, Lena Wosinska, Marco Ruffini, “Exploiting dual homing in access networks to improve resiliency in core networks,” IEEE/OSA Journal of Optical Communications and Networking, vol. 8, no. 11, pp. 854-862, Nov. 2016.

24. Émile Archambault, Nabih Alloune, Marija Furdek, Zhenyu Xu, Christine Tremblay, Ajmal Muhammad, Jiajia Chen, Lena Wosinska, Paul Littlewood, and Michel P. Bélanger, “Routing and spectrum assignment in elastic filterless optical networks,” IEEE Transactions on Networking, vol. 24, no. 6, pp. 3578-3592, Dec. 2016.

25. Sandu Abeywickrama, Marija Furdek, Paolo Monti, Lena Wosinska, and Elaine Wong, “Protecting core networks with dual-homing: A study on enhanced network availability, resource efficiency, and energy-savings,” Optics Communications, vol. 381, pp. 327-335, Dec. 2016.

26. Nina Skorin-Kapov, Marija Furdek, Szilard Zsigmond, and Lena Wosinska, “Physical-layer security in evolving optical networks,” IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 54, no. 8, pp. 110-117, Aug. 2016.

27. Marija Furdek, Nina Skorin-Kapov, and Lena Wosinska, “Attack-aware dedicated path protection in optical networks,” IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology, vol. 34, no. 4, pp. 1050-1061, Feb. 2016.

28. Zhenyu Xu, Christine Tremblay, Émile Archambault, Marija Furdek, Jiajia Chen, Lena Wosinska, Paul Littlewood, and Michel P. Bélanger, “Flexible bandwidth assignment in filterless optical networks,” IEEE Communication Letters, vol. 19, no. 4, pp. 565-568, Apr. 2015.

29. Matija Džanko, Marija Furdek, Georgios Zervas, and Dimitra Simeonidou, “Evaluating availability of optical networks based on self-healing network function programmable ROADMs”, IEEE/OSA Journal of Optical Communications and Networking, vol. 6, no. 11, pp. 974-987, Nov. 2014.

30. Ramon Aparicio Pardo, Belen Garcia Manrubia, Pablo Pavon Marino, Nina Skorin-Kapov, and Marija Furdek, “Balancing CapEx reduction and network stability with stable routing-virtual topology capacity adjustment (SR-VTCA)”, Optical Switching and Networking, vol. 10, no. 4, pp. 343-353, Nov. 2013. Winner of the 2013 Fabio Neri Best Paper award.

31. Nina Skorin-Kapov, Marija Furdek, Ramon Aparicio Pardo, and Pablo Pavon Marino, “Wavelength assignment for reducing in-band crosstalk attack propagation in optical networks: ILP formulations and heuristic algorithms”, European Journal of Operational Research, vol. 222, no. 3, pp. 418-429, Nov. 2012.

32. Amornrat Jirratigalachote, Nina Skorin-Kapov, Marija Furdek, Jiajia Chen, Paolo Monti, and Lena Wosinska, “Sparse power equalization placement for limiting jamming attack propagation in transparent optical networks”, Optical Switching and Networking, vol. 8, no. 4, pp. 249-258, Dec. 2011.

33. Marija Furdek, Nina Skorin-Kapov, and Maša Grbac, “Attack-aware wavelength assignment for localization of in-band crosstalk attack propagation”, IEEE/OSA Journal of Optical Communications and Networking, vol. 2, no. 11, pp. 1000-1009, Nov. 2010.

Guest editorials:

1. Darko Zibar, Sergei Turitsyn, Bahram Jalali, Keisuke Kojima, Marija Furdek, “Editorial: Introduction to JSTQE Special Issue on Machine Learning in Photonic Communication and Measurement Systems,” IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Communications, August 2022.

2. Marija Furdek, Paolo Monti, Carmen Mas Machuca, Jarosław Turkiewicz, David Larrabeiti, “Introduction to the ONDM2021 Special Issue,” IEEE/OSA Journal of Optical Communications and Networking, vol. 14, no. 5, pp. ONDM1-ONDM2, May 2022

3. Ramon Casellas, Raul Munoz, Marija Furdek, Salvatore Spadaro, Zuqing Zhu, “Introduction to the ONDM2020 Special Issue,” IEEE/OSA Journal of Optical Communications and Networking, vol. 13, no. 6, pp. ONDM1-ONDM2, June 2021.

4. Marija Furdek (Lead Guest Editor), David Caplan, Marco Fioretino, “Introduction to the Photonic Networks and Devices (NETWORKS) Special Issue,” IEEE/OSA Journal of Optical Communications and Networking, vol. 12, no. 4, pp. NET1-NET2, April 2020. Open Access.

5. Marija Furdek, Nicolas Fontaine, Werner Klaus, Domenico Siracusa, Nick Parsons, “Guest Editorial: Photonic Networks and Devices,” IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology, vol. 37, no. 16, pp. 3872-3873, August 2019.

6. Jesse Simsarian, Nicolas Fontaine, Marija Furdek, Georgios Zervas, “Photonic Networks and Devices Feature: Introduction,” IEEE/OSA Journal of Optical Communications and Networking, vol. 9, no. 4, pp. PND1-PND1, April 2017.

Conference papers:

1. Yuchuan Fan, Xiaodan Pang, Aleksejs Udalcovs, Carlos Natalino, Lu Zhang, Sandis Spolitis, Vjaceslavs Brobovs, Richard Schatz, Xianbin Yu, Marija Furdek, Sergei Popov, Oskars Ozolins, “EVM Estimation for Performance Monitoring in Coherent Optical Systems: An Approach of Linear Regression,” in Proc. CLEO 2022, San Jose, USA, May 15-20, 2022.

2. Carlos Natalino, Carlos Manso, Lluis Gifre, Raul Munoz, Ricard Vilalta, Marija Furdek, Paolo Monti, “Microservice-Based Unsupervised Anomaly Detection Loop for Optical Networks,” in Proc. OFC 2022, San Diego, USA, March 6-10, 2022.

3. Yuchuan Fan, Aleksejs Udalcovs, Xiaodan Pang, Carlos Natalino, Richard Schatz, Marija Furdek, Sergei Popov, Oskars Ozolins, “Deep Learning Assisted Pre-Carrier Phase Recovery EVM Estimation for Coherent Transmission Systems,” in Proc. CLEO 2021, May 2021.

4. Carlos Natalino, Carlos Manso, Ricard Vilalta, Paolo Monti, Raul Munoz, Marija Furdek, “Scalable Physical Layer Security Components for Microservice-Based Optical SDN Controllers,” in Proc. ECOC 2021, Bordeaux, France, Sept. 13-16, 2021.

5. Yuchuan Fan, Aleksejs Udalcovs, Xiaodan Pang, Carlos Natalino, Richard Schatz, Marija Furdek, Sergei Popov, Oskars Ozolins, “Laser Linewidth Tolerant EVM Estimation Approach for Intelligent Signal Quality Monitoring Relying on Feedforward Neural Networks,” in Proc. ECOC 2021, Bordeaux, France, Sept. 13-16, 2021.

6. Carlos Natalino, Andrea Di Giglio, Marco Schiano, Marija Furdek, "Autonomous security management in optical networks," in Proc. OFC 2021, invited paper.

7. Carlos Natalino, Andrea Di Giglio, Marco Schiano, Marija Furdek, “Root Cause Analysis for Autonomous Optical Networks: A Physical Layer Security Use Case,” ECOC 2020, invited paper.

8. Marija Gajić, Marija Furdek, Poul Heegaard, “A Framework for Spatial and Temporal Evaluation of Network Disaster Recovery,” in Proc. 32nd International Teletraffic Congress (ITC 32), Osaka, Japan, Sept. 22-24, 2020.

9. Marija Furdek, Carlos Natalino, “Machine Learning for Cognitive Optical Network Security Management,” Advanced Photonics Congress, Photonic Networks and Devices (NETWORKS), Montreal, Canada, July 13-16, 2020, invited paper.

10. Marija Furdek, Carlos Natalino, Lena Wosinska, Christine Tremblay, “Design of Programmable Filterless Optical Networks,” in Proc. Photonics North, Niagara Falls, Canada, May 26-28, 2020, invited paper.

11. Federico Tonini, Carlos Natalino, Marija Furdek, Carla Rafaelli, Paolo Monti, “Network Slicing Automation: Challenges and Benefits,” in Proc. ONDM, Barcelona, Spain, May 18-21, 2020, invited tutorial.

12. Marija Furdek, Carlos Natalino, “Machine learning for optical network security management,” in Proc. OFC, Machine learning symposium, San Diego, USA, March 8-12, 2020, invited paper.

13. Marija Furdek, Carlos Natalino, Fabian Lipp, David Hock, Nieke Aerts, Marco Schiano, Andrea Di Giglio, Lena Wosinska, “Demonstration of Machine-Learning-Assisted Security Monitoring in Optical Networks,” in Proc. ECOC, Dublin, Ireland, September 2019, invited demo.

14. Carlos Natalino, Aleksejs Udalcovs, Lena Wosinska, Oskars Ozolins, Marija Furdek, “One-Shot Learning for Modulation Format Identification in Evolving Optical Networks,” OSA APC Photonic Networks and Devices, San Francisco, USA, July 2019, postdeadline paper.

15. Marija Furdek, Vincent W.S. Chan, Carlos Natalino Silva, Lena Wosinska, “Network-Wide Localization of Optical-Layer Attacks,” in Proc. IEEE Optical Network Design and Modeling (ONDM), Athens, Greece, May 2019, invited paper.

16. Jing Zhu, Marija Furdek, Carlos Natalino, Lena Wosinska, Zhuqing Zhu, “How to Survive Targeted Fiber Cuts: A Game Theoretic Approach for Resilient SDON Control Plane Design,” in Proc. IEEE Optical Network Design and Modeling (ONDM), Athens, Greece, May 2019.

17. Marija Furdek, Carlos Natalino Silva, Marco Schiano, Andrea Di Giglio, "Experiment-based identification of service disruption attacks in optical networks", in Proc. SPIE Photonics West, Feb. 2019, invited paper.

18. Marija Furdek, "Towards secure and self-diagnosable optical networks", in Proc. IEEE Photonics in Switching and Computing, Limassol, Cyprus, Sept. 2018, invited paper.

19. Carlos Natalino Silva, Marco Schiano, Andrea Di Giglio, Lena Wosinska, Marija Furdek, "Field Demonstration of Machine-Learning-Aided Detection and Identification of Jamming Attacks in Optical Networks," in Proc. ECOC, Rome, Italy, Sept. 2018.

20. Ognjen Dobrijević, Carlos Natalino Silva, Marija Furdek, Haris Hodžić, Matija Džanko, Lena Wosinska, "Another Price to Pay: An Availability Analysis for SDN Virtualization with Network Hypervisors," in Proc. IEEE RNDM, Longyearbyen, Norway, Aug. 2018.

21. Carlos Natalino, Amaro de Sousa, Lena Wosinska, Marija Furdek, "On the Trade-offs between User-to-Replica Distance and CDN Robustness to Link Cut Attacks," in Proc. IEEE RNDM, Longyearbyen, Norway, Aug. 2018.

22. Vahid Abedifar, Marija Furdek, Ajmal Muhammad, Mohammad Eshghi, Lena Wosinska, "Routing, Modulation Format, Spectrum and Core Assignment in SDM Networks Based on Programmable Filterless Nodes," in Proc. OSA APC Photonic Networks and Devices, Zurich, Switzerland, July 2018. Winner of a Best Student Paper Award.

23. Róża Goścień, Carlos Natalino Silva, Lena Wosinska, Marija Furdek, "Impact of High-Power Jamming Attacks on SDM Networks," in Proc. IEEE ONDM, Dublin, Ireland, May 2018.

24. Jing Zhu, Carlos Natalino Silva, Marija Furdek, Lena Wosinska, Zuqing Zhu, "Control Plane Robustness in Software-Defined Optical Networks Under Targeted Fiber Cuts," in Proc. IEEE ONDM, Dublin, Ireland, May 2018.

25. Forough Yaghoubi, Marija Furdek, Ahmad Rostami, Peter Öhlén, Lena Wosinska, "Reliable Topology Design of Wireless Networks under Correlated Failures," in Proc. IEEE ICC, Kansas City, USA, May 2018.

26. Chathurika Ranaweera, Paolo Monti, Björn Skubic, Marija Furdek, Lena Wosinska, Ampalavanapillai Nirmalathas, Christina Lim, Elaine Wong, "Optical X-haul Options for 5G Fixed Wireless Access: Which one to Choose?," IEEE INFOCOM Poster/Demo Session, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, April 2018.

27. Christine Tremblay, Émile Archambault, Michel P. Bélanger, Paul Littlewood, William Clelland, Marija Furdek, Lena Wosinska, "Agile optical networking: Beyond filterless solutions," in Proc. OFC, San Diego, USA, Mar. 2018, invited paper.

28. Federico Pederzolli, Marija Furdek, Domenico Siracusa, Lena Wosinska, "Towards Secure Optical Networks: A Framework to Aid Localization of Harmful Connections," in Proc. OFC, San Diego, USA, Mar. 2018.

29. Rashmi Munjal, William Liu, Xue Jun Li, Jairo Gutierrez, Marija Furdek, "Sustainable massive data dissemination by using software defined connectivity approach," in Proc. ITNAC, Sydney, Australia, Nov. 2017.

30. Carlos Natalino, Aysegul Yayimli, Lena Wosinska, Marija Furdek, "Link addition framework for optical CDNs robust to targeted link cut attacks," in Proc. IEEE RNDM, Alghero, Italy, Sept. 2017. Winner of the Best Paper Award.

31. Pawel Wiatr, Robert Forchheimer, Marija Furdek, Jiajia Chen, Lena Wosinska, and Di Yuan, "Hierarchical optical interconnects saving spectrum resources in data center networks," in Proc. OSA APC Photonic Networks and Devices, New Orleans, USA, July 2017.

32. Marija Furdek, Ajmal Muhammad, Nina Skorin-Kapov, "Survivable manycast, anycast and replica placement in optical inter-datacenter networks," in Proc. ICTON, Girona, Spain, July 2017, invited paper.

33. D.B. Payne, A. Arbelaez, R. Bonk, N.J. Doran, M. Furdek, R. Jensen, N. Parsons, T. Pfeiffer, L. Quesada, C. Raack, G. Talli, P. Townsend, R. Wessäly, L. Wosinska, X. Yin, and M. Ruffini, "End-to-end network design and experimentation in the DISCUS project," in Proc. ICTON, Girona, Spain, July 2017, invited paper.

34. Melissa Licciardello, Matteo Fiorani, Marija Furdek, Paolo Monti, Carla Raffaelli, Lena Wosinska, "Performance evaluation of abstraction models for orchestration of distributed data center networks," in Proc. ICTON, Girona, Spain, July 2017.

35. Carlos Natalino, Aysegul Yayimli, Lena Wosinska, Marija Furdek, "Content accessibility in optical cloud networks under targeted link cuts," in Proc. ONDM, Budapest, Hungary, May 2017, invited paper

36. Md. Nooruzzaman, Nabih Alloune, Feriel Nabet, Émile Archambault, Christine Tremblay, Marija Furdek, Jiajia Chen, Lena Wosinska, Paul Littlewood, Michel P. Bélanger, “Agile filterless submarine networks,” in Proc. of IEEE Intl. Network Strategy and Planning Symposium (NETWORKS), Montreal, Canada, Sept. 2016.

37. Ajmal Muhammad, Marija Furdek, Georgios Zervas, Lena Wosinska, “Filterless networks based on optical white boxes and SDM,” in Proc. of European Conference on Optical Communications (ECOC), Dusseldorf, Germany, Sept. 2016.

38. Marija Furdek, Lena Wosinska, Róża Goścień, Konstantinos Manousakis, Michał Aibin, Krzysztof Walkowiak, Sashko Ristov, Marjan Gushev, José L. Marzo, “An overview of security challenges in communication networks,” in Proc. of IEEE Intl. Workshop on Resilient Networks Design and Modeling (RNDM), COST-RECODIS special session, Halmstad, Sweden, Sept. 2016.

39. Massimo Tornatore, Marija Furdek, 17 other authors, “A survey on network resiliency methodologies against weather-based disruptions,” in Proc. of IEEE Intl. Workshop on Resilient Networks Design and Modeling (RNDM), COST-RECODIS special session, Halmstad, Sweden, Sept. 2016.

40. Carmen Mas Machuca, Elaine Wong, Marija Furdek, Lena Wosinska, “Energy consumption and reliability performance of survivable hybrid passive optical converged network,” in Proc. OSA Advanced Photonic Congress, Photonic Networks and Deviced (NETWORKS), Vancouver, Canada, July 2016.

41. Carla Rafaelli, Federico Tonini, Matteo Fiorani, Marija Furdek, Paolo Monti, Lena Wosinska, “Optimization of centralized radio access networks in indoor areas,” in Proc. IEEE Intl. Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), Trento, Italy, July 2016, invited paper.

42. Meiqian Wang, Marija Furdek, Lena Wosinska, Paolo Monti, “Wavelength overprovisioning strategies for enhanced optical path restoration,” in Proc. IEEE Intl. Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), Trento, Italy, July 2016, invited paper.

43. Marija Furdek, Ajmal Muhammad, Georgios Zervas, Nabih Alloune, Christine Tremblay, Lena Wosinska, “Programmable Filterless Network Architecture Based on Optical White Boxes,” in Proc. IEEE Intl. Conf. on Optical Network Design and Modeling (ONDM), Cartagena, Spain, May 2016, invited paper.

44. Md. Nooruzzaman, Feriel Nabet, Nabih Alloune, Émile Archambault, Christine Tremblay, Marija Furdek, Jiajia Chen, Lena Wosinska, Paul Littlewood and Michel P. Bélanger, “Resource savings using gridless submarine networks based on filterless coherent transmission technologies,” in Proc. SubOptic, Dubai, UAE, April 2016.

45. Federico Tonini, Matteo Fiorani, Marija Furdek, Lena Wosinska, Carla Rafaelli and Paolo Monti, “Minimum cost deployment of radio and transport resources in centralized radio architectures,” in Proc. IEEE Intl. Conf. on Computing, Networking and Communication (ICNC), Kauai, Hawaii, USA, Feb. 2016.

46. Marija Furdek, Matija Džanko, Nina Skorin-Kapov and Lena Wosinska, “Planning of optical networks based on programmable ROADMs,” in Proc. IEEE/OSA/SPIE Asia Communications and Photonics Conference (ACP), Hong Kong, China, Nov. 2015, invited paper.

47. Meiqian Wang, Marija Furdek, Paolo Monti, Lena Wosinska, “Restoration with service degradation and relocation in optical cloud networks,” in Proc. IEEE/OSA/SPIE Asia Communications and Photonics Conference (ACP), Hong Kong, China, Nov. 2015, invited paper.

48. Sandu Abeywickrama, Elaine Wong, Marija Furdek, Paolo Monti, Lena Wosinska, “Energy-efficient survivability for core networks using dual-homing,” in Proc. IEEE/OSA/SPIE Asia Communications and Photonics Conference (ACP), Hong Kong, China, Nov. 2015.

49. Matija Džanko, Marija Furdek, Branko Mikac, Georgios Zervas, Emilio Hugues-Salas, and Dimitra Simeonidou, “Synthesis, resiliency and power efficiency of function programmable optical nodes”, in Proc. IEEE Intl. Conf. on Telecommunications (ConTEL), Graz, Austria, July 2015.

50. Marija Furdek, Matija Džanko, Mario Matanić, Ivan Borić, Lena Wosinska, and Branko Mikac, “Multi-hour network provisioning utilizing function programmable ROADMs,” in Proc. IEEE Intl. Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), July 2015, invited paper.

51. Carlos Natalino, Paolo Monti, Luis Franca, Marija Furdek, Lena Wosinska, Carlos R. Frances, and Joao W. Costa, “Dimensioning optical clouds with Shared-Path Shared-Computing (SPSC) Protection,” in Proc. IEEE Intl. Conf. on High Performance Switching and Routing (HPSR), Budapest, Hungary, July 2015, invited paper.

52. José-Luis Izquierdo Zaragoza, Marija Furdek, Avishek Nag, Paolo Monti, Lena Wosinska, and Pablo Pavon-Marino, “On the dimensioning of survivable optical metro/core networks with dual-homed access”, in Proc. IEEE Intl. Conf. on High Performance Switching and Routing (HPSR), Budapest, Hungary, July 2015.

53. Nooruzzaman, Nabih Alloune, Feriel Nabet, Zhenyu Xu, Émile Archambault, Christine Tremblay, Marija Furdek, Jiajia Chen, Lena Wosinska, Paul Littlewood, and Michel P. Bélanger, “Filterless architecture for coherent undersea networks” in IEEE Intl. Conf. on Optical Network Design and Modeling (ONDM), Pisa, Italy, May 2015.

54. Sandu Abeywickrama, Marija Furdek, Paolo Monti, Lena Wosinska, Avishek Nag, and Elaine Wong, “Dual-homing based protection for enhanced network availability and resource efficiency”, in Proc. IEEE/OSA/SPIE Asia Communications and Photonics Conf. (ACP), Beijing, China, Nov. 2014.

55. Ajmal Muhammad, Marija Furdek, Paolo Monti, Lena Wosinska, and Robert Forchheimer, “An optimization model for dynamic bulk provisioning in elastic optical networks”, in Proc. IEEE/OSA/SPIE Asia Communications and Photonics Conf. (ACP), Beijing, China, Nov. 2014.

56. Ajmal Muhammad, Marija Furdek, Paolo Monti, Lena Wosinska, and Robert Forchheimer, “Dynamic provisioning utilizing redundant modules in elastic optical networks based on Architecture on Demand nodes”, in Proc. of European Conf. on Optical Communications (ECOC), Valencia, Spain, Sept. 2014.

57. Marija Furdek, Matija Džanko, Patrik Glavica, and Lena Wosinska, “Can Architecture on Demand nodes with self-healing capabilities improve reliability of optical networks?”, in Proc. OSA Advanced Photonics for Communications, Photonics in Switching, San Diego, USA, July 2014, invited paper.

58. Branko Mikac, Matija Džanko, Marija Furdek, Emilio Hugues-Salas, Georgios Zervas, and Dimitra Simeonidou, “Availability aspects of self-healing optical nodes designed by Architecture on Demand”, in Proc. IEEE Intl. Conf. on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), July 2014, invited paper.

59. Marija Furdek, Nina Skorin-Kapov, Szilard Zsigmond, and Lena Wosinska, “Vulnerabilities and security issues in optical networks”, in Proc. IEEE Intl. Conf. on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), Graz, Austria, July 2014, invited paper.

60. Marija Furdek, Matija Džanko, and Lena Wosinska, “Resilience of optical networks based on Architecture on Demand nodes”, in Proc. European Conf. on Networks and Communication (EuCNC), Bologna, Italy, June 2014, invited paper.

61. Marija Furdek, Nina Skorin-Kapov, and Lena Wosinska, “Shared path protection under the risk of high-power jamming”, in Proc. European Conf. on Networks and Optical Communications (NOC), Milano, Italy, June 2014, invited paper.

62. Marija Furdek, Matija Džanko, Patrik Glavica, Lena Wosinska, Branko Mikac, Norberto Amaya, Georgios Zervas, and Dimitra Simeonidou, “Efficient optical amplification in self-healing synthetic ROADMs”, in IEEE Intl. Conf. on Optical Network Design and Modeling (ONDM), Stockholm, Sweden, May 2014.

63. Matija Džanko, Marija Furdek, Norberto Amaya, Georgios Zervas, Branko Mikac, and Dimitra Simeonidou, “Experimental demonstration and benefits of self-healing hard-wired and synthetic ROADMs”, in Proc. IEEE/OSA Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC), San Francisco, USA, Mar. 2014.

64. Matija Džanko, Marija Furdek, Norberto Amaya, Georgios Zervas, Branko Mikac, and Dimitra Simeonidou, “Self-healing optical networks with Architecture on Demand nodes”, in Proc. of European Conf. on Optical Communications (ECOC), London, UK, Sept. 2013.

65. Marija Furdek and Nina Skorin-Kapov, “Attack-survivable routing and wavelength assignment for high-power jamming”, in IEEE Intl. Conf. on Optical Network Design and Modeling (ONDM), Brest, France, May 2013.

66. Marija Furdek, Nina Skorin-Kapov, and Anna Tzanakaki, “Survivable routing and wavelength assignment considering high-powered jamming attacks”, in Proc. IEEE/OSA/SPIE Asia Communications and Photonics Conference (ACP), Shanghai, China, Nov. 2011, post-deadline paper.

67. Marija Furdek, Jiajia Chen, Nina Skorin-Kapov, and Lena Wosinska, “Compound attack-aware routing and wavelength assignment against power jamming”, in Proc. IEEE/OSA/SPIE Asia Communications and Photonics Conference (ACP), Shanghai, China, Nov. 2011.

68. Marija Furdek, and Nina Skorin-Kapov, “Physical-layer attacks in all-optical WDM networks”, in Proc. IEEE Intl. Convention on Information and Communication Technology, Electronics and Microelectronics (MIPRO), Opatija, Croatia, May 2011. Winner of the Outstanding Excellent Paper Award.

69. Amornrat Jirattigalachote, Nina Skorin-Kapov, Marija Furdek, Jiajia Chen, Paolo Monti, and Lena Wosinska, “Limiting physical-layer attack propagation with power equalization placement in transparent WDM networks”, in Proc. IEEE/OSA/SPIE Asia Communications and Photonics Conference (ACP), Shanghai, China, Dec. 2010. Winner of the Best Student Paper Award.

70. Marija Furdek, Marko Bosiljevac, Nina Skorin-Kapov, and Zvonimir Šipuš, “Gain competition in optical amplifiers: A case study”, in Proc. IEEE Intl. Convention on Information and Communication Technology, Electronics and Microelectronics (MIPRO), Opatija, Croatia, May 2010.

71. Marija Furdek, Nina Skorin-Kapov, Marko Bosiljevac, and Zvonimir Šipuš, “Analysis of crosstalk in optical couplers and associated vulnerabilities”, in Proc. IEEE Intl. Convention on Information and Communication Technology, Electronics and Microelectronics (MIPRO), Opatija, Croatia, May 2010.

72. Marija Furdek and Nina Skorin-Kapov, “A scalable wavelength assignment approach for preventive crosstalk attack localization in optical networks”, in Proc. IEEE Intl. Conf. on Telecommunications (ConTEL), Zagreb, Croatia, July 2009.

73. Nina Skorin-Kapov and Marija Furdek, “Limiting the propagation of intra-channel crosstalk attacks in optical networks through wavelength assignment”, in Proc. IEEE/OSA Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC), San Diego, USA, March 2009.

74. Goran Tomaš, Marija Furdek, Siniša Fajt, Vladimir Olujić, and Karlo Bruči, “Perceptibility of aggressive dynamics processing in digital audio broadcasting”, in Proc. 3rd Congress of the Alps Adria Acoustics Association, Graz, Austria, Sept. 2007.

Abstracts in conference proceedings:

1. Marija Furdek, Carlos Natalino Silva, “Physical layer security management through machine learning,” in Proc. CLEO, May 2021, invited talk.

2. Marija Furdek, Carlos Natalino Silva, “Machine learning for physical-layer security in optical networks: Progress and challenges,” in Proc. Asia Communications and Photonics (ACP), Chengdu, China, November 2019, invited talk.

3. Marija Furdek, Carlos Natalino Silva, “Enhancing optical network security with machine learning,” in Proc. IEEE Intl. Conf. on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), Angers, France, July 2019, invited talk.

4. Carlos Natalino Silva, Aysegul Yayimli, Lena Wosinska, Marija Furdek, "Effects of physical layer attacks on content accessibility and latency in optical CDNs," in Proc. IEEE Intl. Conf. on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), Girona, Spain, July 2017, invited talk.

5. Marija Furdek, Ajmal Muhammad, Georgios Zervas, Christine Tremblay, Lena Wosinska, "Performance evaluation of programmable filterless networks implemented by optical white boxes," in Proc. IEEE Intl. Conf. on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), Trento, Italy, July 2016, invited talk.

6. Lena Wosinska, Marija Furdek, Matija Džanko, "Reliability performance of optical networks based on programmable ROADMs," in Proc. IEEE Intl. Conf. on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), Trento, Italy, July 2016.

7. Marija Furdek, Amornrat Jirattigalachote, Nina Skorin-Kapov, Lena Wosinska, "Attack-aware optical networks planning: A cost analysis," in Proc. IEEE Intl. Conf. on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), Stockholm Sweden, July 2011, invited talk.

Book Chapters:

1. Marija Furdek, Carlos Natalino “Machine learning for network security management, attacks, and intrusion detection,” Machine Learning for Future Fiber-Optic Communication Systems, Elsevier, A. Pak Lao Tau, F. Nadeem Khan (Eds), 2022.

2. Jacek Rak, David Hutchison, Janos Tapolcai, Rasa Bruzgiene, Massimo Tornatore, Carmen Mas Machuca, Marija Furdek, Paul Smith, “Fundamentals of Communication Networks Resilience to Disasters and Disruptions,” Guide to Disaster-Resilient Communication Networks, Springer, J. Rak and D. Hutchinson (Eds), 2020.

3. Marija Furdek, Federico Pederzolli, Vincent Chan, “Detection of attacks and attack-survivable routing in carrier networks,” Guide to Disaster-Resilient Communication Networks, Springer, J. Rak and D. Hutchinson (Eds), 2020.

4. Forough Yaghoubi and Marija Furdek, “Resilient routing against rain disruptions for wireless networks,” Guide to Disaster-Resilient Communication Networks, Springer, J. Rak and D. Hutchinson (Eds), 2020.

5. Róża Goścień, Georgios Ellinas, Marija Furdek, Panayiotis Kolios, Piotr Lechowicz, Konstantinos Manousakis, Giannis Savva, Nina Skorin-Kapov, Krzysztof Walkowiak, “Security-aware carrier network planning,” Guide to Disaster-Resilient Communication Networks, Springer, J. Rak and D. Hutchinson (Eds), 2020.

6. Amaro da Sousa, Dorabella Santos, Carlos Natalino, Lena Wosinska, Carmen Mas Machuca, Marija Furdek, “Structural Methods to Improve the Robustness of Anycast Communications to Large-Scale Failures,” Guide to Disaster-Resilient Communication Networks, Springer, J. Rak and D. Hutchinson (Eds), 2020.

7. Carlos Natalino, Sashko Ristov, Lena Wosinska, Marija Furdek, “Functional metrics to evaluate network vulnerability to disasters,” Guide to Disaster-Resilient Communication Networks, Springer, J. Rak and D. Hutchinson (Eds), 2020.

8. Marija Furdek and Nina Skorin-Kapov, “Physical-layer attacks in transparent optical networks”, Optical Communication Systems, N. Das (Ed.), InTech, Rijeka, Croatia, 2012.

Workshop, symposia and summer/training school participation

1. Marija Furdek, “Network intrusion diagnostics enabled by machine learning,” OFC 2022 panel “What is the role of machine learning in optical access networks?”, March 8, 2022.

2. Marija Furdek, “AI/ML for security management in optical networks,” Summer school “AI for Optical Networks & Neuromorphic Photonics for AI Acceleration,” Fraunhofer, Berlin, Germany, Sept. 6-7, 2021.

3. Marija Furdek, “Physical layer security management aided by machine learning,” 3rd ONFIRE symposium, CTTC, Barcelona, Spain, February 24, 2021.

4. Marija Furdek, Carlos Natalino, “Machine learning for optical network security management,” The Role of Machine Learning for the Next Generation of Optical Communication Systems and Networks, OFC Symposium, San Diego, March 6 2020.

5. Marija Furdek and Carlos Natalino, “Machine learning for optical network security management,” Ericsson AB webinar, online, March 4, 2020.

6. Marija Furdek, Carlos Natalino, “Physical-layer security management in optical networks”, COST Action RECODIS Training School, Brussels, December 10, 2019.

7. Marija Furdek, Amaro de Sousa, Carlos Natalino, “Structural methods to enhance the resilience of content delivery services to link cut attacks”, COST Action RECODIS Training School, Brussels, December 10, 2019.

8. Marija Furdek, “Machine-learning-assisted security monitoring in optical networks,” Artificial Intelligence assisted photonic applications workshop, Asia Communications and Photonics Conference (ACP), Chengdu, China, November 2-5, 2019.

Non-published presentations, guest and popular science lectures:

1. Marija Furdek, “How to Lead Towards Diversity?”, IEEE Women in Photonics and Diversity Dimensions Research special event, ONDM, May 21, 2020.

2. Marija Furdek, “Resilience of optical network infrastructure to targeted attacks,” Networks Research Group seminar, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway, January 28, 2020.

3. Marija Furdek, “Optical network security: Security at the speed of light?”, Optical networks – the next 25 years! 25-year anniversary workshop of the Optical Networks Group, University College London, September 19-20, 2019.

4. Marija Furdek, "Programmable and secure data center networks: Challenges and current results," IEEE Communications Society seminar, University of Zagreb, Croatia, December 20, 2017.

5. Marija Furdek, "Optical data center network design," Linköping University, December 1, 2017.

6. Marija Furdek, "Optical Networks as an Enabler of the Networked Society," Campus 100 lecture marathon for the 100th year anniversary of KTH, October 2017.

7. Marija Furdek, "Programmable, robust and secure optical networks," docent lecture, KTH, Stockholm, Sweden, September 15, 2017.

8. Marija Furdek, "Resilient design of optical backbone networks," IEEE Communications Society seminar, AUT, Auckland, New Zealand, February 8, 2017.

9. Lena Wosinska and Marija Furdek, "Flexible optical networks: Latest concepts and developments," ECOC 2016 workshop ‘Exploring the real value of flexible optical networks,’ Dusseldorf, Germany, September 18-22, 2016.

10. Marija Furdek, “Optical networks – lighting up telecommunications”, Future Friday, KTH career event, Stockholm, Sweden, March 2014. Broadcasted by Swedish TV channel Kunskapskanalen.

11. Marija Furdek, “The Right to Research – the importance of Open Access from student perspective”, Open access to scientific information workshop, Zagreb, Croatia, October 2012.

12. Group of authors, Croatian Open Access Declaration, Zagreb, Croatia, October 2012.