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Advanced Optical Network Technologies

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Paul Almasan
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
2
Leon Poutievski
Google (United States)
3
Mohammad M. Hosseini
Nokia (Germany)
4
Zhenzhen Han
Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications
5
Yang Xiao
Minzu University of China
6
Abdulhalim Fayad
Magyar Madártani és Természetvédelmi Egyesület
7
Ziye Jia
Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics
8
Yukun Sun
Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
9
Prashant Kumar
Maharaj Vijayaram Gajapathi Raj College of Engineering
10
Rana Kumar Jana
Haldia Institute of Technology

Rising Stars Papers

1
Computing power network: A survey
China Communications|2024
96 cit.
2
Toward 6G Optical Fronthaul: A Survey on Enabling Technologies and Research Perspectives
IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials|2024
86 cit.
3
Distributionally Robust Optimization for Aerial Multi-Access Edge Computing via Cooperation of UAVs and HAPs
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing|2025
43 cit.
4
Cooperative Cognitive Dynamic System in UAV Swarms: Reconfigurable Mechanism and Framework
IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine|2024
36 cit.
5
Service Function Chain Dynamic Scheduling in Space-Air-Ground Integrated Networks
IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology|2025
31 cit.
6
Energy-Efficient Joint User and Power Allocation in 5G Millimeter Wave Networks: A Genetic Algorithm-Based Approach
IEEE Access|2024
28 cit.
7
NFV-Enabled Service Recovery in Space–Air–Ground Integrated Networks: A Matching Game-Based Approach
IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering|2025
21 cit.
8
Scalable QoS-Aware Multipath Routing in Hybrid Knowledge-Defined Networking With Multiagent Deep Reinforcement Learning
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing|2024
20 cit.
9
Blockchain adoption and corporate financial reporting quality
Journal of Accounting and Public Policy|2024
10 cit.
10
Optimized design of horseshoe-and-spur filterless networks leveraging point-to-multipoint coherent pluggable transceivers
Journal of Optical Communications and Networking|2024
9 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Nelson Costa
Infinera (United States)
2
Andrea Sgambelluri
Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna
3
Seela Veerabhadreswara Rao
Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati
4
Jingsong Zhou
University of Science and Technology of China
5
Jaisingh Thangaraj
Indian Institute of Technology Dhanbad
6
Ahmed Q. Lawey
University of Leeds
7
Taisir E. H. El-Gorashi
University of Leeds
8
Jianing Pei
Huawei Technologies (China)
9
Emanuele Virgillito
Politecnico di Torino
10
Ruijie Zhu
Zhengzhou University

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
TCJA-SNN: Temporal-Channel Joint Attention for Spiking Neural Networks
IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems|2024
81 cit.
2
Load-Balanced Virtual Network Embedding Based on Deep Reinforcement Learning for 6G Regional Satellite Networks
IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology|2023
68 cit.
3
Context-Aware Multiagent Broad Reinforcement Learning for Mixed Pedestrian-Vehicle Adaptive Traffic Light Control
IEEE Internet of Things Journal|2022
51 cit.
4
DRL-Based Deadline-Driven Advance Reservation Allocation in EONs for Cloud–Edge Computing
IEEE Internet of Things Journal|2022
47 cit.
5
Auto-learning communication reinforcement learning for multi-intersection traffic light control
Knowledge-Based Systems|2023
32 cit.
6
FBG Based Optical Weight Measurement System and Its Performance Enhancement Using Machine Learning
IEEE Sensors Journal|2022
31 cit.
7
Double-Agent Reinforced vNFC Deployment in EONs for Cloud-Edge Computing
Journal of Lightwave Technology|2023
31 cit.
8
Effects of flood inundation on biogeochemical processes in groundwater during riverbank filtration
Journal of Hydrology|2023
25 cit.
9
Preparation of vanadium‐based electrode materials and their research progress in solid‐state flexible supercapacitors
Rare Metals|2023
25 cit.
10
Energy-Efficient Graph Reinforced vNFC Deployment in Elastic Optical Inter-DC Networks
IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering|2023
24 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
Biswanath Mukherjee
Soochow University
2
Raouf Boutaba
University of Waterloo
3
Zuqing Zhu
University of Science and Technology of China
4
Steve Uhlig
Queen Mary University of London
5
S. J. Ben Yoo
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
6
Chunming Qiao
University at Buffalo, State University of New York
7
P. Castoldi
Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario per le Telecomunicazioni
8
Ioannis Tomkos
University of Patras
9
Amin Vahdat
Google (United States)
10
Hussein T. Mouftah
University of Ottawa

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
Software-Defined Networking: A Comprehensive Survey
Proceedings of the IEEE|2014
4.9k cit.
2
Epidemic routing for partially-connected ad hoc networks
Unknown Journal|2000
4.2k cit.
3
Cloud computing: state-of-the-art and research challenges
Journal of Internet Services and Applications|2010
3.5k cit.
4
A scalable, commodity data center network architecture
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review|2008
3.2k cit.
5
Network Function Virtualization: State-of-the-Art and Research Challenges
IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials|2015
1.9k cit.
6
Optical burst switching (OBS) - a new paradigm for an optical Internet
Unknown Journal|1999
1.9k cit.
7
B4
Unknown Journal|2013
1.8k cit.
8
A scalable, commodity data center network architecture
Unknown Journal|2008
1.7k cit.
9
Elastic optical networking: a new dawn for the optical layer?
IEEE Communications Magazine|2012
1.6k cit.
10
Hedera: dynamic flow scheduling for data center networks
Unknown Journal|2010
1.5k cit.

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