João Manuel Ferreira Pedro

João Pedro

Academic position:	Researcher
Joining date:	01-01-2002
Roles in IT:	Researcher
Thematic Line:	Optics and Photonics
Group:	Optical Communication Systems and Networking – Lx

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Tel: +351 21 841 84 54

https://www.orcid.org/0000-0003-4471-7401

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19-12-2024

João Pedro and André Souza won the Best Paper Award at the RNDM 2024

João Pedro won the Best Paper Award at the 14th edition of the International Workshop on Resilient Networks Design and Modelling (RNDM 2024), which took place from 25 to 27 November in Pompeii, Italy.

15-10-2024

News@IT - Latest issue

In our latest newsletter, Issue 115, we are pleased to feature an exclusive interview with Carlos Salema, a distinguished scientist and one of the founding members of the Instituto de Telecomunicações.

30-09-2024

IT researchers in the top 2% of most-cited scientists worldwide

Researchers from the Instituto de Telecomunicações have earned prestigious recognition on both lists, which include more than 200,000 names. Twenty-eight IT researchers are recognized for their career-long contributions, and twenty-three for their single-year impact, resulting in fifty-one nominations.

24-10-2023

IT Researchers ranked among the Top 2% Scientists Worldwide by Stanford University

A total of thirty IT researchers are among the most-cited scientists worldwide, falling within the top 2% in their respective scientific fields.

Scientific Achievements

Degrees

PhD, Instituto Superior Técnico, 01-01-2011
MSc, Instituto Superior Técnico, 29-07-2004
Licenciatura, Instituto Superior Técnico, 27-12-2001

Affiliations

IEEE Communications Society, 01-02-2007,

Expertise Topics

Optical Networking
Network Optimization
Transport Network Architectures
Machine Learning

Academic Activities

2Lecture courses

Planeamento de Redes, Instituto Superior Técnico, Diploma de Formação Avançada - POSTIT

Redes de Telecomunicações, Instituto Superior de Transportes e Comunicações,, Mestrado em Engenharia de Redes e Sistemas de Comunicação (MERSC)

7Supervision of PhD theses

As Co-supervisor

Coherent Transceiver Design for Optical Next-Generation Access Networks, PhD Student, Guilherme Lins de Araújo, Expected conclusion 03-2027
Power Optimization and Techno-Economic Aspects of Multiband Optical Networks, PhD Student, André Luiz Nunes de Souza, Defended 07-2025
Optimized Machine Learning Techniques for Reliability of Optical Networks, PhD Student, Lareb Zar Khan, Defended 12-2024
Techniques for Efficient and Secure Optical Networks, PhD Student, Masab Iqbal, Defended 02-2023
Design of Spectral- and Cost-Efficient High-Capacity Optical Transport Networks, PhD Student, Daniela Aguiar Moniz, Defended 07-2022
Optimization of flexible-grid optical transport networks, PhD Student, António Miguel Barata da Eira, Defended 01-2018
Optical Networks Optimization, PhD Student, Rui Manuel Dias Morais, Defended 02-2015

2Supervision of MSc theses

As Co-supervisor

Estratégia de Sobrevivência a Falhas em Redes de Transporte Ópticas, MSc Student, Miguel Filipe Ferreira Pedro, Concluded 12-2019
Multi-Period Planning Strategies in Optical Transport Networks, MSc Student, Andre Mira Pereira Fernandes, Concluded 12-2017

Publications

4Books Chapters

J. M. Pedro, A. Eira, Hybrid Backup Resource Optimization for VNF Placement over Optical Transport Networks, Chapter in, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 11616, Springer, --, 2020
J. M. Pedro, BG Gangopadhyay, S. S. Spaelter, Next-Generation Transport Networks Leveraging Universal Traffic Switching and Flexible Optical Transponders, Chapter in, Optical Fiber and Wireless Communications, Intech Open, London, 2017 | Full text (PDF 4 MBs)
J. M. Pedro, J. J. O. Pires, Optical Burst-Switched Networks exploiting Traffic Engineering in the Wavelength Domain, Chapter in, Telecommunications Networks, Jesus Hamilton Ortiz, In-Tech, 2012
S. Pato, J. M. Pedro, Optical Network Architectures for the support of Future Wireless Systems, Chapter in, Next Generation Wireless Communications Using Radio over Fiber, Nathan J. Gomes, Paulo P. Monteiro, Atílio Gameiro, Wiley, 2012

66Papers in Journals

Early Access

J. M. Pedro, N. Costa, Twining Digital Subcarrier Multiplexed Optical Signals with OCATA for Lightpath Provisioning, Journal of Lightwave Technology, Vol., No., pp. 1 - 10, March, 2025,
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Published

J. M. Pedro, Power consumption considerations of coherent transceivers in filterless point-to-multipoint metro-aggregation networks with digital subcarrier multiplexing, Journal of Optical Communications and Networking, Vol. 17, No. 6, pp. 526 - 526, May, 2025,
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J. M. Pedro, N. Costa, Simulation and Modelling of C+L+S Multiband Optical Transmission for the OCATA Time Domain Digital Twin, Sensors, Vol. 25, No. 6, pp. 1948 - 1948, March, 2025,
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J. M. Pedro, A. Souza, N. Costa, J. J. O. Pires, Raman amplifier design and launch power optimization in multi-band optical systems, Journal of Optical Communications and Networking, Vol. 17, No. 1, pp. A13 - A13, October, 2024,
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J. M. Pedro, N. Costa, Optimized design of horseshoe-and-spur filterless networks leveraging point-to-multipoint coherent pluggable transceivers, Journal of Optical Communications and Networking, Vol. 16, No. 10, pp. 969 - 969, September, 2024,
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J. M. Pedro, N. Costa, Applications of the OCATA time domain digital twin: from QoT estimation to failure management, Journal of Optical Communications and Networking, Vol. 16, No. 2, pp. 221 - 221, February, 2024,
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J. M. Pedro, N. Costa, Model and data-centric machine learning algorithms to address data scarcity for failure identification, Journal of Optical Communications and Networking, Vol. 16, No. 3, pp. 369 - 381, February, 2024,
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J. M. Pedro, A. Souza, N. Costa, J. J. O. Pires, Cost analysis of ultrawideband transmission in optical networks, Journal of Optical Communications and Networking, Vol. 16, No. 2, pp. 81 - 93, January, 2024,
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J. M. Pedro, N. Costa, Equalization in dispersion-managed systems using learned digital back-propagation, Optics Continuum, Vol. 2, No. 10, pp. 2088 - 2105, October, 2023,
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J. M. Pedro, N. Costa, Hybrid amplifier placement in mesh DWDM networks using integer linear programming models, Journal of Optical Communications and Networking, Vol. 15, No. 10, pp. E29 - E39, October, 2023,
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J. M. Pedro, N. Costa, Optimized design of filterless horseshoe networks exploiting point-to-multipoint coherent transceivers, Journal of Optical Communications and Networking, Vol. 15, No. 9, pp. 569 - 578, September, 2023,
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J. M. Pedro, N. Costa, Investigating Imperfect Cloning for Extending Quantum Communication Capabilities, Sensors, Vol. 23, No. 18, pp. 7891 - 7891, September, 2023,
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J. M. Pedro, A. Souza, N. Costa, J. J. O. Pires, Comparison of fast quality of transmission estimation methods for C + L + S optical systems, Journal of Optical Communications and Networking, Vol. 15, No. 11, pp. F1 - F1, September, 2023,
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J. M. Pedro, N. Costa, Multi-period planning in metro-aggregation networks exploiting point-to-multipoint coherent transceivers, Journal of Optical Communications and Networking, Vol. 15, No. 3, pp. 155 - 162, March, 2023,
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J. M. Pedro, N. Costa, OCATA: a deep-learning-based digital twin for the optical time domain, Journal of Optical Communications and Networking, Vol. 15, No. 2, pp. 87 - 87, February, 2023,
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J. M. Pedro, N. Costa, Supporting Heterogenous Traffic on Top of Point-to-Multipoint Light-Trees, Sensors, Vol. 23, No. 5, pp. 1 - 16, February, 2023,
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J. M. Pedro, N. Costa, Data augmentation to improve performance of neural networks for failure management in optical networks, Journal of Optical Communications and Networking, Vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 57 - 57, January, 2023,
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J. M. Pedro, N. Costa, Accurate Low Complex Modulation Format and Symbol Rate Identification for Autonomous Lightpath Operation, Sensors, Vol. 22, No. 23, pp. 9251 - 9251, November, 2022,
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J. M. Pedro, Network upgrade exploiting multi band: S- or E-band?, Journal of Optical Communications and Networking, Vol. 14, No. 9, pp. 749 - 756, September, 2022,
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J. M. Pedro, Optimization of survivable filterless optical networks exploiting digital subcarrier multiplexing, Journal of Optical Communications and Networking, Vol. 14, No. 7, pp. 586 - 594, July, 2022,
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J. M. Pedro, J. J. O. Pires, Benefits of counterpropagating Raman amplification for multiband optical networks, Journal of Optical Communications and Networking, Vol. 14, No. 7, pp. 562 - 571, July, 2022,
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J. M. Pedro, Transparent vs Translucent Multi-Band Optical Networking: Capacity and Energy Analyses, Journal of Lightwave Technology, Vol. 40, No. 11, pp. 3486 - 3498, June, 2022,
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J. M. Pedro, LPsec: a fast and secure cryptographic system for optical connections, Journal of Optical Communications and Networking, Vol. 14, No. 5, pp. 278 - 288, May, 2022,
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J. M. Pedro, Cost-effective strategies to scale the capacity of regional optical transport networks, Journal of Optical Communications and Networking, Vol. 14, No. 2, pp. A154 - A165, February, 2022,
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J. M. Pedro, Autonomous and Energy Efficient Lightpath Operation Based on Digital Subcarrier Multiplexing, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Vol. 39, No. 9, pp. 2864 - 2877, September, 2021,
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J. M. Pedro, Power control strategies and network performance assessment for C+L+S multiband optical transport, Journal of Optical Communications and Networking, Vol. 13, No. 7, pp. 147 - 147, April, 2021,
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J. M. Pedro, A. Eira, Comprehensive model for technoeconomic studies of next-generation central offices for metro networks, Journal of Optical Communications and Networking, Vol. 12, No. 12, pp. 414 - 427, December, 2020,
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J. M. Pedro, N. Costa, Assessment on the Achievable Throughput of Multi-Band ITU-T G.652.D Fiber Transmission Systems, Journal of Lightwave Technology, Vol. 38, No. 16, pp. 4279 - 4291, August, 2020,
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J. M. Pedro, N. Costa, Provisioning in Multi-Band Optical Networks, Journal of Lightwave Technology, Vol. 38, No. 9, pp. 2598 - 2605, May, 2020,
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J. M. Pedro, N. Costa, D. Moniz, Optimized Design and Challenges for C&L Band Optical Line Systems, Journal of Lightwave Technology, Vol. 38, No. 5, pp. 1080 - 1091, March, 2020,
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J. M. Pedro, N. Costa, S. Pato, Optical transport network design beyond 100 Gbaud [Invited], Journal of Optical Communications and Networking, Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. A123 - A134, February, 2020,
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J. M. Pedro, A. Eira, Hybrid Backup Resource Optimization for VNF Placement Over Optical Transport Networks, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 11616, No. --, pp. 3 - 14, February, 2020,
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J. M. Pedro, A. Eira, N. Costa, Disaggregated edge-enabled C+L-band filterless metro networks, Journal of Optical Communications and Networking, Vol. 12, No. 3, pp. 2 - 2, December, 2019,
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D. Moniz, J. M. Pedro, N. Horta, J. J. O. Pires, Multi-objective framework for cost-effective OTN switch placement using NSGA-II with embedded domain knowledge, Applied Soft Computing Journal, Vol. 83, No. 105608, pp. - - -, October, 2019 | BibTex
BG Gangopadhyay, J. M. Pedro, S. S. Spaelter, 5G-Ready Multi-Failure Resilient and Cost-Effective Transport Networks, Journal of Lightwave Technology, Vol. 37, No. 16, pp. 4062 - 4072, August, 2019,
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D. Moniz, J. M. Pedro, J. J. O. Pires, Network Design Framework to Optimally Provision Services Using Higher-Symbol Rate Line Interfaces, Journal of Optical Communications and Networking, Vol. 11, No. 2, pp. A174 - A185, February, 2019,
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A. Eira, J. M. Pedro, J. J. O. Pires, Modeling Cost Versus Flexibility in Optical Transport Networks, Journal of Lightwave Technology, Vol. 37, No. 1, pp. 61 - 74, January, 2019,
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R.M. Morais, J. M. Pedro, Machine Learning Models for Estimating Quality of Transmission in DWDM Networks, Journal of Optical Communications and Networking, Vol. 10, No. 10, pp. D84 - D99, October, 2018 | BibTex
J. M. Pedro, N. Costa, Optimized Hybrid Raman/EDFA Ampliﬁer Placement for DWDM Mesh Networks, Journal of Lightwave Technology, Vol. 36, No. 9, pp. 1552 - 1561, May, 2018,
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J. M. Pedro, J. Santos, N. Costa, On the Impact of Deploying Optical Transport Networks Using Disaggregated Line Systems, Journal of Optical Communications and Networking, Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. A60 - A68, January, 2018,
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A. Eira, A. M. F. P. Pereira, J. J. O. Pires, J. M. Pedro, On the Efficiency of Flexible Ethernet Client Architectures in Optical Transport Networks [Invited], Journal of Optical Communications and Networking, Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. A133 - A133, January, 2018 | BibTex
J. M. Pedro, Designing Transparent Flexible-Grid Optical Networks for Maximum Spectral Efficiency [Invited], Journal of Optical Communications and Networking, Vol. 9, No. 4, pp. C35 - C44, April, 2017,
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R.M. Morais, J. M. Pedro, T. Rarick, Evaluating Modular Node Architectures with Limited Shelf Interconnection [Invited], Journal of Optical Communications and Networking, Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. A176 - A188, February, 2017 | BibTex
A. Eira, J. M. Pedro, J. J. O. Pires, Traffic Grooming Policies Under Switching Constraints in Next-Generation Transport Networks, Journal of Optical Communications and Networking, Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. A125 - A134, January, 2017 | BibTex
J. M. Pedro, N. Costa, Networking Aspects for Next-Generation Elastic Optical Interfaces, Journal of Optical Communications and Networking, Vol. 8, No. 7, pp. A116 - A125, July, 2016,
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A. Eira, M. Quagliotti, J. M. Pedro, Impact of Client- and Line-Side Flexibility in the Lifecycle of Next-Generation Transport Networks, Journal of Optical Communications and Networking, Vol. 8, No. 7, pp. A101 - A115, July, 2016 | BibTex
J. M. Pedro, Analisi Tecnico Economica di una Rete Fotonica Europea, Rivista AEIT, Vol. --, No. 1/2, pp. 12 - 19, January, 2016,
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R.M. Morais, J. M. Pedro, A. N. Pinto, Techno-Economic Analysis of Fixed and Flexible Node Architectures in Multiperiod Scenarios [Invited], Journal of Optical Communications and Networking, Vol. 7, No. 12, pp. B108 - B121, December, 2015 | BibTex
A. Eira, J. M. Pedro, J. J. O. Pires, J. P. Fernandez-Palacios, Optimized Client and Line Hardware for Multiperiod Traffic in Optical Networks With Sliceable Bandwidth-Variable Transponders [Invited], Journal of Optical Communications and Networking, Vol. 7, No. 12, pp. B212 - B212, December, 2015 | BibTex
-- Gunkel, -- Mattheus, -- Wissel, -- Napoli, J. M. Pedro, N. Costa, -- Rahman, G. Meloni, F. Fresi, F. Cugini, N. Sambo, M. Bohn, Vendor-Interoperable Elastic Optical Interfaces – standards, experiments and challenges [Invited], Journal of Optical Communications and Networking, Vol. 7, No. 12, pp. B184 - B193, December, 2015,
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J. M. Pedro, J. Santos, Support of superchannel formats in optical networks with legacy services and traffic churn [Invited], Journal of Optical Communications and Networking, Vol. 7, No. 12, pp. B122 - B130, December, 2015,
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R.M. Morais, J. M. Pedro, P. Monteiro, A. N. Pinto, Benefits of Node Architecture Flexibility and Hitless Re-Grooming in Transport Networks, Journal of Lightwave Technology, Vol. 33, No. 21, pp. 4424 - 4436, November, 2015 | Full text (PDF 588 KBs) | BibTex
A. Eira, J. M. Pedro, J. J. O. Pires, Optimal Multi-Period Provisioning of Fixed and Flex-Rate Modular Line Interfaces in DWDM Networks, Journal of Optical Communications and Networking, Vol. 7, No. 4, pp. 223 - 234, April, 2015 | BibTex
J. M. Pedro, Predeployment of Regenerators for Fast Service Provisioning in DWDM Transport Networks [Invited], Journal of Optical Communications and Networking, Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. A190 - A199, February, 2015,
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A. Eira, J. Santos, J. M. Pedro, J. J. O. Pires, Multi-Objective Design of Survivable Flexible-Grid DWDM Networks, Journal of Optical Communications and Networking, Vol. 6, No. 3, pp. 326 - 339, March, 2014 | BibTex
R.M. Morais, J. M. Pedro, P. Monteiro, A. N. Pinto, Impact of Node Architecture in the Power Consumption and Footprint Requirements of Optical Transport Networks, Journal of Optical Communications and Networking, Vol. 5, No. 5, pp. 421 - 436, May, 2013 | BibTex
J. M. Pedro, S. Pato, Impact of Add/Drop Port Utilization Flexibility in DWDM Networks [Invited], Journal of Optical Communications and Networking, Vol. 4, No. 11, pp. B142 - B150, November, 2012,
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J. Santos, J. M. Pedro, P. Monteiro, J. J. O. Pires, Optimization Framework for Supporting 40 Gb/s and 100 Gb/s Services over Heterogeneous Optical Transport Networks, Journal of Networks, Vol. 7, No. 5, pp. 31 - 38, May, 2012 | BibTex
A. Eira, J. M. Pedro, J. J. O. Pires, Optimized Design of Multistage Passive Optical Networks, Journal of Optical Communications and Networking, Vol. 4, No. 5, pp. 402 - 411, May, 2012 | BibTex
J. Santos, J. M. Pedro, P. Monteiro, J. J. O. Pires, Optimized Routing and Buffer Design for Optical Transport Networks Based on Virtual Concatenation, Journal of Optical Communications and Networking, Vol. 3, No. 9, pp. 725 - 738, September, 2011 | BibTex
J. M. Pedro, J. J. O. Pires, P. Monteiro, An Overview of Routing Methods in Optical Burst Switching Networks, Optical Switching and Networking, Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 41 - 53, April, 2010,
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J. M. Pedro, P. Monteiro, J. J. O. Pires, Traffic Engineering in the Wavelength Domain for Optical Burst-Switched Networks, Journal of Lightwave Technology, Vol. 27, No. 15, pp. 3075 - 3091, August, 2009,
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J. M. Pedro, P. Monteiro, J. J. O. Pires, Contention Minimisation in Optical Burst-Switched Networks Combining Traffic Engineering in the Wavelength Domain and Delayed Ingress Burst Scheduling, IET Communications, Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 372 - 380, March, 2009,
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J. M. Pedro, P. Monteiro, J. J. O. Pires, Improving the Performance of Optical Burst-Switched Networks with Limited-Range Wavelength Conversion through Traffic Engineering in the Wavelength Domain, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 5200, No. --, pp. 21 - 30, November, 2008,
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J. Santos, J. M. Pedro, J. J. O. Pires, P. Monteiro, Self-Protected Long-Reach 10 Gbit/s EPONs based on a Ring Architecture, Journal of Optical Networking, Vol. 7, No. 5, pp. 1 - 20, May, 2008,
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J. J. O. Pires, J. M. Pedro, Evaluating the Impact of Phsical Impairments on the Blocking Performance of an All-optical WDM Ring under Dynamic Traffic, Journal of Optical Communications, Vol. 28, No. 1/2007, pp. 66 - 72, March, 2007 | BibTex

217Papers in Conferences

J. M. Pedro, Optimal Placement of Hollow-Core Fiber Spans for Latency Reduction in Optical Transport Networks, IEEE Global Communications Conference - GLOBECOM, Taipei, Taiwan, Vol., pp. -, December, 2025,
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J. M. Pedro, Optimal Placement of Hollow-Core Fiber Spans to Realize Cost-Effective and High-Capacity Optical Transport Networks, European Conference on Optical Communication ECOC, Copenhagen, Denmark, Vol., pp. -, October, 2025,
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J. M. Pedro, Leveraging the Potential of Coherent Pluggable Transceivers Across Diverse Network Applications, OSA Advanced Photonics Congress, Marseille, France, Vol., pp. -, July, 2025,
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J. M. Pedro, Design of Filterless Metro-Aggregation Networks Resilient to Frequent Local Power Outages, International Workshop on Resilient Networks Design and Modeling RNDM, Trondheim, Norway, Vol., pp. -, June, 2025,
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J. M. Pedro, N. Costa, Hollow-Core Fiber Specifications for Competitive Deployment in Regio/Long-Haul Optical Networks, Optical Fiber Conference (OFC), San Francisco, United States, Vol., pp. -, April, 2025,
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J. M. Pedro, Load Shedding Resilient Filterless Horseshoe Networks with Point-to-Multipoint Transceivers, IEEE Global Communications Conference - GLOBECOM, Capetown, South Africa, Vol., pp. -, December, 2024,
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J. M. Pedro, A. Souza, Impact of Channel Provisioning Strategies in the Transient Resiliency of SuperC+L-band Networks, International Workshop on Resilient Networks Design and Modeling RNDM, Pompeii, Italy, Vol., pp. -, November, 2024,
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J. M. Pedro, Launch Power Control for Digital Subcarrier Equalization in Filterless Optical Networks, IEEE International Conf. on Software, Telecommunications and Computer Networks - SoftCOM, Split - Bol, Croatia, Vol., pp. -, September, 2024,
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J. M. Pedro, Design of Horseshoe Networks with Low-Loss Filterless Nodes and Point-to-Multipoint Transceivers, IEEE Photonics Society Summer Topicals Meeting Series, Bridgetown, Barbados, Vol., pp. -, July, 2024,
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J. M. Pedro, A. Souza, N. Costa, J. J. O. Pires, Techno-Economic Analysis of Wideband Transmission in Optical Transport Networks, International Conference of Transparent Optical Network (ICTON), Bari, Italy, Vol., pp. -, July, 2024,
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J. M. Pedro, A. Souza, N. Costa, Node Architectures for High-Capacity Multi-band Over Space Division Multiplexed (MBoSDM) Optical Networks, International Conference of Transparent Optical Network (ICTON), Bari, Italy, July, 2024,
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J. M. Pedro, Design of Scalable Filterless Horseshoe-and-Spur Networks with Coherent Point-to-Multipoint Transceivers, International Conference of Transparent Optical Network (ICTON), Bari, Italy, Vol., pp. -, July, 2024,
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J. M. Pedro, Coherent Pluggable Optical Transceivers: Performance versus Interoperability, ELEKTRO, Zakopane, Poland, Vol., pp. 1 - 6, May, 2024,
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J. M. Pedro, N. Costa, Optimizing Deep Learning-based Failure Management in Optical Networks by Monitoring Relative Neural Activity, International Conference on Optical Network Design and Modeling ONDM, Madrid, Spain, Vol., pp. -, May, 2024,
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J. M. Pedro, A. Eira, Deep Reinforcement Learning for Resource Allocation in Multi-Band Optical Networks, International Conference on Optical Network Design and Modeling ONDM, Madrid, Spain, Vol., pp. -, May, 2024,
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J. M. Pedro, Networking Benefits of Coherent Pluggable Optics, Optical Fiber Conference (OFC), San Diego, United States, Vol., pp. -, March, 2024,
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J. M. Pedro, N. Costa, Extending the OCATA Digital Twin for Optical Connections based on Digital Subcarrier Multiplexing, Optical Fiber Conference (OFC), San Diego, United States, Vol., pp. -, March, 2024,
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J. M. Pedro, N. Costa, A Low-Cost Network Architecture Enabled by SOA-Based Filter-less OADMs and Digital Subcarrier Multiplexing, Optical Fiber Conference (OFC), San Diego, United States, Vol., pp. -, March, 2024,
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J. M. Pedro, A. Souza, N. Costa, J. J. O. Pires, Comparative Assessment of S+C+L-band and E+C+L-band Systems with Hybrid Amplification, Optical Fiber Conference (OFC), San Diego, United States, Vol., pp. -, March, 2024,
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J. M. Pedro, N. Costa, Optimal Node Design in Filterless Horseshoe Networks with Point-to-Multipoint Transceivers, IEEE Photonics Conf. - IPC, Orlando, United States, Vol., pp. -, November, 2023,
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J. M. Pedro, N. Costa, Constrained-Optimization of Filterless Horseshoe Networks Supporting P2MP Coherent Transceivers, IEEE IEEE Virtual Conference on Communications IEEE VCC, Conference online, Vol., pp. -, November, 2023,
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J. M. Pedro, N. Costa, Model-Centric versus Data-Centric Machine Learning for Soft-Failure Cause Identification in Optical Networks, European Conference on Optical Communication ECOC, Glasgow, United Kingdom, Vol., pp. -, October, 2023,
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J. M. Pedro, A. Souza, N. Costa, J. J. O. Pires, Leveraging Raman Amplification to Improve and Equalize the Performance of a 20-THz Multi-band Optical System, European Conference on Optical Communication ECOC, Glasgow, United Kingdom, Vol., pp. -, October, 2023,
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J. M. Pedro, A. Eira, Routing and Spectrum Assignment Based on Reinforcement Learning in Multi-Band Optical Networks, International Conf. on Photonics in Switching - PS, Mantova, Italy, Vol., pp. -, September, 2023,
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J. M. Pedro, N. Costa, Meta-Heuristic Framework for Designing Filterless Horseshoe Networks with P2MP Transceivers, International Conf. on Photonics in Switching - PS, Mantova, Italy, Vol., pp. -, September, 2023,
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J. M. Pedro, Maximizing Optical Network Connectivity with Limited Number of Hybrid Erbium-Doped Fiber/Raman Amplifiers, OSA Advanced Photonics Congress, Busan, Korea, South, Vol., pp. -, July, 2023,
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J. M. Pedro, N. Costa, Extending the OCATA Digital Twin to the Frequency Domain, International Conf. on Transparent Optical Networks - ICTON, Bucharest, Romania, Vol., pp. -, July, 2023,
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J. M. Pedro, N. Costa, SSMS: A Split Step MultiBand Simulation Software, International Conference of Transparent Optical Network (ICTON), Bucharest, Romania, July, 2023,
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J. M. Pedro, A. Souza, N. Costa, J. J. O. Pires, Complexity and Accuracy Trade-off for Quality of Transmission Estimation in Wideband Optical Systems, International Conference of Transparent Optical Network (ICTON), Bucharest, Romania, Vol., pp. -, July, 2023,
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J. M. Pedro, N. Costa, The Potential of Data Augmentation for Failure Management in Optical Networks, OSA Advanced Photonics Congress, Busan, Korea, South, Vol., pp. -, July, 2023,
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J. M. Pedro, N. Costa, Performance Comparison of Optical Networks Exploiting Multiple and Extended Bands and Leveraging Reinforcement Learning, International Conference on Optical Network Design and Modeling ONDM, Coimbra, Portugal, Vol., pp. -, May, 2023,
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J. M. Pedro, N. Costa, C+L+S-Band Optical Network Design Exploiting Ampliﬁer Site Upgrade Strategies, International Conference on Optical Network Design and Modeling ONDM, Coimbra, Portugal, May, 2023,
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J. M. Pedro, N. Costa, Optimal Design of Filterless Horseshoe Networks Supporting Point-to-Multipoint Transceivers, Optical Fiber Conference (OFC), San Diego, United States, Vol., pp. -, March, 2023,
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J. M. Pedro, N. Costa, Degradation Detection and Severity Estimation by Exploiting an Optical Time and Frequency Digital Twin, Optical Fiber Conference (OFC), San Diego, United States, Vol., pp. -, March, 2023,
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J. M. Pedro, N. Costa, Data Augmentation to Reduce Computational Complexity of Neural-Network-Based Soft-Failure Cause Identifier, Optical Fiber Conference (OFC), San Diego, United States, Vol., pp. -, March, 2023,
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A. Souza, A. Eira, N. Costa, J. M. Pedro, J. J. O. Pires, On the Impact of Fault-Induced Power Transients in Wideband Optical Networks, Optical Fiber Conference (OFC), San Diego, United States, Vol., pp. -, March, 2023,
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J. M. Pedro, A. Souza, A. Eira, Flexible Survivability in Next-Generation Multi-Band Optical Transport Networks, Optical Fiber Conference (OFC), San Diego, United States, Vol., pp. -, March, 2023,
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J. M. Pedro, N. Costa, Multi-period Planning in Metro-Aggregation Networks using Point-to-Multipoint Transceivers, IEEE Global Communications Conference - GLOBECOM, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Vol., pp. -, December, 2022,
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J. M. Pedro, N. Costa, Optimal Placement of Hybrid Erbium-Doped Fiber/Raman Amplifiers in DWDM Networks, IEEE Global Communications Conference - GLOBECOM, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Vol., pp. -, December, 2022,
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J. M. Pedro, Effectiveness of Coherent Pluggable Interfaces in Brownfield Optical Network Deployments, IEEE Latin-American Conf. on Communications - LATINCOM, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Vol., pp. -, December, 2022,
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J. M. Pedro, Comparative Assessment of 800G-Capable Embedded and Pluggable Coherent Line Interfaces over the Optical Network Lifecycle, Asia Communications and Photonics Conf. - ACP, Shenzhen, China, Vol., pp. -, November, 2022,
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J. M. Pedro, N. Costa, Extending the C+L System Bandwidth versus Exploiting Part of the S-band: Network Capacity and Interface Count Comparison, European Conference on Optical Communication ECOC, Basel, Switzerland, Vol., pp. -, September, 2022,
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J. M. Pedro, N. Costa, J. J. O. Pires, Service-Aware Genetic Algorithm for Link Power Control in Multi-band Optical Transmission Systems, European Conference on Optical Communication ECOC, Basel, Switzerland, Vol., pp. -, September, 2022,
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J. M. Pedro, N. Costa, Capacity and Energy Usage of Translucent and Multi-Band Transparent Optical Networks, OSA Advanced Photonics Congress, Maastricht, Netherlands, Vol., pp. -, July, 2022,
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J. M. Pedro, N. Costa, Optimization of Survivable Filterless Optical Networks Exploiting Digital Subcarrier Multiplexing, IEEE Communications Society IEEE International Conference on Communications ICC, Seoul, Korea, South, Vol., pp. -, May, 2022,
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J. M. Pedro, A. Eira, C. Pinho, On the Effectiveness of Small Multicast Switches in Next-Generation Optical Transport Networks, International Conference on Optical Network Design and Modeling ONDM, Warsaw, Poland, Vol., pp. -, May, 2022,
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J. M. Pedro, N. Costa, Long-Term Cost-Effectiveness of Metro Networks Exploiting Point-to-Multipoint Transceivers, International Conference on Optical Network Design and Modeling ONDM, Warsaw, Poland, Vol., pp. -, May, 2022,
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J. M. Pedro, N. Costa, Capacity and Energy Consumption Comparison in Translucent versus Transparent Multi-band Designs, International Conference on Optical Network Design and Modeling ONDM, Warsaw, Poland, Vol., pp. -, May, 2022,
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J. M. Pedro, N. Costa, J. J. O. Pires, Raman Ampliﬁcation for Simpliﬁed Channel Provisioning in Wide-Band Optical Networks, OSA Optical Fiber Communications - OFC, San Diego, United States, Vol., pp. -, March, 2022,
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J. M. Pedro, N. Costa, J. J. O. Pires, Optimal Pay-As-You-Grow Deployment on S+C+L Multi-band Systems, OSA Optical Fiber Communications - OFC, San Diego, United States, Vol., pp. -, March, 2022,
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J. M. Pedro, N. Costa, Optimal Spectral Usage and Energy Efﬁcient S-to-U Multiband Optical Networking, OSA Optical Fiber Communications - OFC, San Diego, United States, Vol., pp. -, March, 2022,
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J. M. Pedro, Transport Network Upgrade exploiting Multi-Band Systems: S- versus E-band, OSA Optical Fiber Communications - OFC, San Diego, United States, Vol., pp. -, March, 2022,
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J. M. Pedro, N. Costa, Optimized Physical Design of Metro Aggregation Networks using Point to Multipoint Transceivers, OSA Optical Fiber Communications - OFC, San Diego, United States, Vol., pp. -, March, 2022,
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J. M. Pedro, N. Costa, Design of Survivable Metro-Aggregation Networks based on Digital Subcarrier Routing, IEEE Global Communications Conference - GLOBECOM, Madrid, Spain, Vol., pp. -, December, 2021,
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J. M. Pedro, N. Costa, Optimized Design of Metro-Aggregation Networks Exploiting Digital Subcarrier Routing, Asia Communications and Photonics Conf. - ACP, Shanghai, China, Vol., pp. -, October, 2021,
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J. M. Pedro, N. Costa, J. J. O. Pires, Accurate and Scalable Quality of Transmission Estimation for Wideband Optical Systems, IEEE International Workshop on Computer-Aided Modeling Analysis and Design of Communication Links and Networks - IEEE CAMAD, Conference online, Vol., pp. -, October, 2021,
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J. M. Pedro, N. Costa, QoT Evaluation of Optical Line System Transmission with Bismuth-Doped Fiber Ampliﬁers in the E-Band, Asia Communications and Photonics Conf. - ACP, Shanghai, China, Vol., pp. -, October, 2021,
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J. M. Pedro, N. Costa, Cost-Effective Capacity Increase of Deployed Optical Networks to Support the Future Internet: the Multi-Band Approach, International Conference on Network of the Future NoF, Coimbra, Portugal, Vol., pp. -, October, 2021,
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J. M. Pedro, N. Costa, Network Capacity and Energy Consumption: Transparent C+L-band vs Translucent C-band, IEEE Photonics Conf. - IPC, Conference online, Vol., pp. -, October, 2021,
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J. M. Pedro, Multiband Seamless Network Upgrade by Exploiting the E-band, European Conference on Optical Communication ECOC, Bordeaux, France, Vol., pp. -, September, 2021,
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J. M. Pedro, N. Costa, J. J. O. Pires, Optimized Deployment of S-band and Raman Ampliﬁcation to Cost-Effectively Upgrade Wideband Optical Networks, European Conference on Optical Communication ECOC, Bordeaux, France, Vol., pp. -, September, 2021,
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J. M. Pedro, N. Costa, Optimized Translucent S-band Transmission in Multi-Band Optical Networks, European Conference on Optical Communication ECOC, Bordeaux, France, Vol., pp. -, September, 2021,
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J. M. Pedro, N. Costa, Comparison of Cost-effective Solutions to Increase the Capacity of Regional Optical Transport Networks, IEEE Photonics Society IEEE Summer Topicals Meeting Series SUM, Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, July, 2021,
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J. M. Pedro, Multiband Power Control Impact on the Transmission Capacity of Optical Line Systems, IEEE Photonics Society IEEE Summer Topicals Meeting Series SUM, Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, July, 2021,
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J. M. Pedro, N. Costa, C+L-band Network Upgrade: Capacity and Energy Analyses with Different Transceivers, IEEE Photonics Society IEEE Summer Topicals Meeting Series SUM, Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, July, 2021,
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J. M. Pedro, N. Costa, Low Complexity Convolutional Neural Networks for Equalization in Optical Fiber Transmission, OSA Signal Processing in Photonic Communications - SPPCom, Burlingame, United States, July, 2021,
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J. M. Pedro, Scaling Regional Optical Transport Networks with Pluggable and Integrated High-Capacity Line Interfaces, OSA Optical Fiber Communications - OFC, San Diego, United States, June, 2021,
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J. M. Pedro, Optical Power Control Strategies for Optimized C+L+S-bands Network Performance, OSA Optical Fiber Communications - OFC, San Diego, United States, June, 2021,
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J. M. Pedro, Performance Comparison of Translucent C-band and Transparent C+L-band Network, OSA Optical Fiber Communications - OFC, San Diego, United States, June, 2021,
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J. M. Pedro, N. Costa, Comparison of Transceiver and C+L Band Upgrades: Network Traffic and Energy Assessment, International Conference on Electrical, Communication, and Computer Engineering ICECCE, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, June, 2021,
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J. M. Pedro, N. Costa, Network Comparison of C+L-band Transparent versus C-band Translucent Upgrade, International Conference on Optical Network Design and Modeling ONDM, Gothenburg, Sweden, June, 2021,
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J. M. Pedro, A. Eira, On the Comparative Efficiency of Next-Generation Coherent Interfaces for Survivable Network Design, International Conference on the Design of Reliable Communication Networks DRCN, Milan, Italy, April, 2021,
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J. M. Pedro, Dual-Band Node Architectures for C+L-Band Capacity Upgrades in Optical Metro Transport Networks, VDE ITG-Fachtagung Photonische Netze, Conference online, November, 2020,
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J. M. Pedro, J. J. O. Pires, Performance Comparison of Operational Models for Media Channel Provisioning with Reduced Margins, International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks ICTON, Bari, Italy, July, 2020,
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J. M. Pedro, S. Pato, High-Performance versus Power-Efficient Coherent Optical Interfaces: Spectral Efficiency and Hardware Count Comparison, International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks ICTON, Bari, Italy, July, 2020,
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J. M. Pedro, The Role of Metro Transport Node Architectures in Optimized Edge Data-Center Dimensioning, International Conference on Optical Network Design and Modeling ONDM, Barcelona, Spain, May, 2020,
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J. M. Pedro, Value Proposition of High Capacity and Flexible Line Interfaces in Next-Generation Transport Networks, International Conference on Optical Network Design and Modeling ONDM, Barcelona, Spain, May, 2020,
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J. M. Pedro, Design Strategies Exploiting C+L-Band in Networks with Geographically-Dependent Fiber Upgrade Expenditures, OSA Optical Fiber Communications - OFC, San Diego, United States, March, 2020,
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J. M. Pedro, Capacity Limits of C+L Metro Transport Networks Exploiting Dual-band Node Architectures, OSA Optical Fiber Communications - OFC, San Diego, United States, March, 2020,
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J. M. Pedro, J. J. O. Pires, Design and Operation Strategies for Optical Transport Networks with Reduced Margins Service-Provisioning, OSA Optical Fiber Communications - OFC, San Diego, United States, March, 2020,
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J. M. Pedro, J. J. O. Pires, Network Design Framework Exploiting Low-Margin Provisioning of Optical Shared Restoration Resources, OSA Optical Fiber Communications - OFC, San Diego, United States, March, 2020,
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J. M. Pedro, Fast and High-Precision Optical Performance Evaluation for Cognitive Optical Networks, OSA Optical Fiber Communications - OFC, San Diego, United States, March, 2020,
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J. M. Pedro, D. Moniz, J. J. O. Pires, Multi-Layer Network Optimization Efficiently Exploiting Real-Time Performance Monitoring, IEEE Global Communications Conference - GLOBECOM, Waikoloa, United States, December, 2019,
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A. Eira, A. M. F. P. Pereira, N. Costa, J. M. Pedro, J. J. O. Pires, On the Effect of In-Band Crosstalk Margins for Optimized Format Selection in Meshed Optical Networks, European Conference on Optical Communication ECOC, Dublin, Ireland, September, 2019,
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N. Costa, J. M. Pedro, Provisioning in Multi-Band Optical Networks: A C+L+S-Band Use Case, European Conference on Optical Communication ECOC, Dublin, Ireland, September, 2019,
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J. M. Pedro, S. Pato, N. Costa, Capacity Limits of Mesh Optical Transport Networks Exploiting Future High Baud-Rate Line Interfaces, International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks ICTON, Angers, France, July, 2019,
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J. M. Pedro, D. Moniz, J. J. O. Pires, Multi-Layer Optimization Framework for Optical Transport Networks with Dynamic Margin Management, International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks ICTON, Angers, France, July, 2019,
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BG Gangopadhyay, J. M. Pedro, S. Pato, Exploiting Real-Time Performance Awareness for Cost-Effective Restoration in Optical Transport Networks, International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks ICTON, Angers, France, July, 2019,
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A. Eira, N. Costa, J. M. Pedro, High-Capacity Metro Optical Nodes Enabling Efficient Dimensioning of Edge Computing Platforms, International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks ICTON, Angers, France, July, 2019,
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N. Costa, J. M. Pedro, Upgrade Capacity Scenarios Enabled by Multi-band Optical Systems, International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks ICTON, Angers, France, July, 2019,
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N. Costa, J. M. Pedro, Optical Multi-Band Networks: Maximizing Lifetime of Deployed Fiber Infrastructure, OSA Advanced Photonics Congress, Burlingame, United States, July, 2019,
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BG Gangopadhyay, J. M. Pedro, N.B Borges, Designing Ultra-Reliable 5G-Ready Transport Networks, OSA Advanced Photonics Congress, Burlingame, United States, July, 2019,
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N. Costa, J. M. Pedro, Multi-Band Optical Systems to Enable Ultra-High Speed Transmissions, Conf. on Lasers and Electro-optic - CLEO, Munich, Germany, June, 2019 | BibTex
J. M. Pedro, A. Eira, Hybrid Backup Resource Optimization for VNF Placement over Optical Transport Networks, International Conference on Optical Network Design and Modeling ONDM, Athens, Greece, May, 2019,
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D. Moniz, J. M. Pedro, J. J. O. Pires, Service Provisioning Framework with Dynamic Margin Management for Optical Transport Networks, OSA Optical Fiber Communications - OFC, San Diego, United States, March, 2019 | BibTex
J. M. Pedro, N. Costa, Optical Network Design Towards Beyond 100 Gbaud, OSA Optical Fiber Communications - OFC, San Diego, United States, Vol. M4J.5, pp. -, March, 2019,
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J. M. Pedro, BG Gangopadhyay, S. S. Spaelter, Multi-failure Resilient and Cost-effective Hyper-scale Transport Networks for the 5G-era, OSA Optical Fiber Communications - OFC, San Diego, United States, Vol. Th2A.22, pp. -, March, 2019,
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J. M. Pedro, A. Eira, N. Costa, Metro Transport Architectures for Reliable and Ubiquitous Service Provisioning, Asia Communications and Photonics Conf. - ACP, Hangzhou, China, October, 2018,
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D. Moniz, J. M. Pedro, J. J. O. Pires, Spectral-Efficient Provisioning of Protected Services over DWDM Networks Exploiting High-Symbol Rate Line Interfaces, European Conference on Optical Communication ECOC, Rome, Italy, September, 2018 | BibTex
J. M. Pedro, N. Costa, Strategies for Optimized Raman Amplification Deployment in DWDM Mesh Networks, International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks ICTON, Bucharest, Romania, July, 2018,
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R.M. Morais, J. M. Pedro, Evaluating machine learning models for QoT estimation, International Conf. on Transparent Optical Networks - ICTON, Bucharest, Romania, Vol. -, pp. * - *, July, 2018 | BibTex
R.M. Morais, J. M. Pedro, Impact of selected input features for lightpath feasibility validation using artificial neural networks, International Conf. on Transparent Optical Networks - ICTON, Bucharest, Romania, Vol. -, pp. * - *, July, 2018 | BibTex
J. M. Pedro, S. Pato, Capacity Increase and Hardware Savings in DWDM Networks Exploiting Next-Generation Optical Line Interfaces, International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks ICTON, Bucharest, Romania, Vol., pp. 1 - 6, July, 2018,
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R.M. Morais, J. M. Pedro, Fast and Accurate Lightpath Validation for SDN Controllers, OSA Optical Fiber Communications - OFC, San Diefo, United States, March, 2018 | BibTex
BG Gangopadhyay, J. M. Pedro, S. S. Spaelter, Minimizing the Cost and Augmenting the Resilience of Vulnerable Optical Transport Networks, OSA Optical Fiber Communications - OFC, San Diego, United States, Vol. M1A.6, pp. 1 - 3, March, 2018,
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Ms Moniz, J. M. Pedro, J. J. O. Pires, Network Design Framework to Spectral- and Cost-Efficiently Exploit Next-Generation Line Interfaces, OSA Optical Fiber Communications - OFC, San Diego, United States, Vol. M1A.4, pp. 1 - 3, March, 2018,
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D. Moniz, J. M. Pedro, J. J. O. Pires, Network Design Framework to Spectral- and Cost- Efficiently Exploit Next-Generation Line Interfaces, OSA Optical Fiber Communications - OFC, San Diego, United States, Vol. M1A.4, pp. -, March, 2018 | BibTex
A. Eira, N. Costa, J. M. Pedro, Interoperable Long-Haul Optical Networks Exploiting Optimized ROADM Vendor Allocation, European Conference on Optical Communication ECOC, Gothenburg, Sweden, September, 2017 | BibTex
J. M. Pedro, S. Pato, ROADM Express Layer Design Strategies for Scalable and Cost-Effective Multi-Fibre DWDM Networks, International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks ICTON, Girona, Spain, Vol., pp. 1 - 7, July, 2017,
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J. M. Pedro, BG Gangopadhyay, S. S. Spaelter, Cost-optimized Resiliency Schemes Exploiting Advanced Modulation Formats and Universal OTN Switching, VDE ITG-Fachtagung Photonische Netze, Leipzig, Germany, May, 2017,
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A. Eira, J. M. Pedro, How Much Transport Grooming is Needed in the Age of Flexible Clients?, OSA Optical Fiber Communications - OFC, Los Angeles, United States, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 3, March, 2017 | BibTex
J. M. Pedro, BG Gangopadhyay, S. S. Spaelter, Cost-Effective Next-Generation Information Highways Leveraging Universal OTN Switching and Flexible-Rate, OSA Optical Fiber Communications - OFC, Los Angeles, United States, Vol. Th4F.5, pp. 1 - 3, March, 2017,
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J. M. Pedro, J. Santos, N. Costa, Cost-Effectiveness Assessment of Transport Networks based on Disaggregated Optical Platforms, OSA Optical Fiber Communications - OFC, Los Angeles, United States, Vol. M2G.7, pp. -, March, 2017,
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R.M. Morais, J. M. Pedro, Minimizing Line Interface Count of Transport Nodes with Limited Shelves Interconnection, IEEE Global Communications Conference - GLOBECOM, Washington, United States, Vol. -, pp. * - *, December, 2016 | BibTex
J. M. Pedro, N. Costa, On the Trade-Off between Maximizing Spectral Efficiency and Minimizing Capacity Overprovisioning in DWDM Networks, International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks ICTON, Trento, Italy, Vol. --, pp. 1 - 6, July, 2016,
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A. Eira, J. M. Pedro, M. Quagliotti, Optimization Models for Total Cost of Ownership Analysis of Next-Generation Transport Networks Based on SBVTs, International Conf. on Transparent Optical Networks - ICTON, Trento, Italy, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 5, July, 2016 | BibTex
J. M. Pedro, Challenges of Designing Transparent Flexible-Grid Optical Networks for Maximum Spectral Efficiency, OSA Photonic Networks and Devices, Vancouver, Canada, Vol. --, pp. 1 - 3, July, 2016,
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A. Eira, J. M. Pedro, J. J. O. Pires, M. Quagliotti, Hardware Reuse Policies for Fixed and Flexible Next-Generation Optical Transport Network Architectures in Multi-Period Scenarios, European Conf. on Networks and Optical Communications - NOC, Lisbon, Portugal, Vol. 0, pp. 1 - 6, June, 2016 | BibTex
R.M. Morais, J. M. Pedro, Modular transport node architectures exploiting limited shelf interconnection and hitell re-grooming (Invited), OSA Optical Fiber Communications - OFC, Anaheim, United States, Vol. -, pp. - - -, March, 2016 | BibTex
A. Eira, J. M. Pedro, J. J. O. Pires, On the Efficiency of Grooming and Switching Policies for Multi-Layer Network Planning with Sliceable Bandwidth-Variable Transponders, OSA Optical Fiber Communications - OFC, Anaheim, United States, Vol. 0, pp. 1 - 3, March, 2016 | BibTex
R.M. Morais, J. M. Pedro, A. N. Pinto, Comparing the CapEx of Fixed and Flexible Node Architectures in Multi-Period Scenarios, Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Aveiro, Portugal, Vol. -, pp. 20 - 23, September, 2015 | BibTex
J. M. Pedro, N. Costa, Preplanning framework to evaluate the potential of different modulation formats in DWDM networks, Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Aveiro, Portugal, Vol. --, pp. -- - --, September, 2015,
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J. M. Pedro, S. Pato, R.M. Morais, On-site reconfiguration requirements of ROADM add/drop architectures under multi-period planning, Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Aveiro, Portugal, Vol. --, pp. -- - --, September, 2015,
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R.M. Morais, J. M. Pedro, A. N. Pinto, Planning and Dimensioning of Multilayer Optical Transport Networks, International Conf. on Transparent Optical Networks - ICTON, Budapest, Hungary, Vol. -, pp. * - *, July, 2015 | BibTex
J. M. Pedro, S. Pato, On Scaling Transport Networks for Very High Nodal Degree ROADM Nodes Using State-of-the-Art Optical Switch Technology, International Conf. on Transparent Networks – ICTON, Budapeste, Hungary, Vol. We.A1.2, pp. -- - --, July, 2015,
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A. Eira, J. M. Pedro, J. J. O. Pires, J. P. Fernandez-Palacios, Performance Evaluation of Heuristic and ILP-based Algorithms for Multi-Period Planning of SBVT-enabled Transport Networks, International Conf. on Transparent Optical Networks - ICTON, Budapest, Hungary, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 6, July, 2015 | BibTex
J. M. Pedro, Prospects for transparent handover between the Metro and Core segments of next-generation transport networks, International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks ICTON, Budapest, Hungary, Vol. Tu.D1.4, pp. 1 - 5, July, 2015,
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R.M. Morais, J. M. Pedro, P. Monteiro, A. N. Pinto, Impact of grooming architecture of transport nodes in line interface count for multi-period planning, OSA Optical Fiber Communications - OFC, Los Angeles, United States, Vol. -, pp. - - -, May, 2015 | BibTex
J. M. Pedro, N. Costa, Techno economics in a wide European optical transport network, Fotonica AEIT Italian Conf. on Photonics Technologies, Turin, Italy, Vol. --, pp. 1 - 4, May, 2015,
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A. Eira, J. M. Pedro, J. J. O. Pires, J. Fernández-Palacios, Optimization of Client-to-Line-Side Switching in DWDM Networks using Sliceable Bandwidth-Variable Transponders, OSA Optical Fiber Communications - OFC, Los Angeles, United States, Vol., pp. 1 - 3, March, 2015 | BibTex
A. Eira, J. M. Pedro, J. J. O. Pires, J. P. Fernandez-Palacios, CAPEX Impact of Fixed/Flex-Rate Modular Line Interfaces in Multi-Period Network Planning with Equipment Reuse, European Conference on Optical Communication ECOC, Cannes, France, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 3, September, 2014 | BibTex
R.M. Morais, J. M. Pedro, P. Monteiro, A. N. Pinto, On the Impact of Client to Line Port Blocking in the Interface Count and Footprint of Transport Networks, International Conf. on Transparent Optical Networks - ICTON, Graz, Austria, Vol. -, pp. - - -, July, 2014 | BibTex
J. M. Pedro, S. Pato, On the Value Proposition of the Contentionless Add/Drop ROADM Property in DWDM Transport Networks, International Conf. on Transparent Networks – ICTON, Graz, Austria, Vol. --, pp. -- - --, July, 2014,
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A. Eira, J. M. Pedro, J. J. O. Pires, Cost Sensitivity Evaluation if Fixed/Flexible Rate Line-Cards and Transceivers under Incremental Traffic, International Conf. on Transparent Optical Networks - ICTON, Graz, Austria, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 5, July, 2014 | BibTex
A. Eira, J. M. Pedro, J. J. O. Pires, Optimized Design of Fixed/Flex-Rate Line-Cards and Transceivers over Multiple Planning Cycles, OSA Optical Fiber Communications - OFC, San Francisco, United States, Vol., pp. 1 - 3, March, 2014 | BibTex
J. M. Pedro, Pre-Deployment of Regenerators in DWDM Networks and the Impact of Mismatches between Planning and Operation, OSA Optical Fiber Communications - OFC, San Francisco, United States, Vol. --, pp. 1 - 3, March, 2014,
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A. Eira, J. M. Pedro, J. J. O. Pires, D. Fonseca, S. S. Spaelter, Defragmentation-Based Capacity Enhancement for Fixed to Flexible-Grid Migration Scenarios in DWDM Networks, European Conference on Optical Communication ECOC, London, United Kingdom, Vol., pp. 1 - 3, September, 2013 | BibTex
A. Eira, J. M. Pedro, D. Fonseca, S. S. Spaelter, Defragmentation of Fixed/Flexible grid Optical Networks, Future Network and Mobile Summit, Lisbon, Portugal, Vol., pp. 1 - 10, July, 2013 | BibTex
S. Pato, N.B Borges, J. M. Pedro, Capacity prospects of future high density metro-access networks, International Conf. on Transparent Optical Networks - ICTON, Cartagena, Spain, Vol. --, pp. -- - --, June, 2013,
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J. M. Pedro, A. Eira, J. J. O. Pires, Performance Comparison of Optical Channel Formats to Realize 400G Data Rates in Transport Networks under Dynamic Traffic, International Conf. on Transparent Optical Networks - ICTON, Cartagena, Spain, Vol. --, pp. 1 - 5, June, 2013,
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J. M. Pedro, Stochastic-based Framework for 3R Regenerator Placement in DWDM Transport Networks under Dynamic Traffic, International Conf. on Transparent Optical Networks - ICTON, Cartagena, Spain, Vol. --, pp. 1 - 5, June, 2013,
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R.M. Morais, J. M. Pedro, P. Monteiro, A. N. Pinto, The cost Dependence between the node architecture, the grooming scheme and the traffic pattern in optical networks, International Conf. on Transparent Optical Networks - ICTON, Cartagena, Spain, Vol. -, pp. * - *, June, 2013 | BibTex
A. N. Pinto, R.M. Morais, J. M. Pedro, P. Monteiro, Total Cost of Ownership Comparison Between Single and Mixed Line Rate Networks, International Conf. on Transparent Optical Networks - ICTON, Cartagena, Spain, Vol. -, pp. 1 - 4, June, 2013,
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A. Eira, J. M. Pedro, J. J. O. Pires, Optimized Guard-Band Assignment for Superchannels in Long-Haul DWDM Networks, Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Castelo Branco, Portugal, Vol., pp. 1 - 4, May, 2013 | BibTex
J. Santos, G. L. Lehmann, J. M. Pedro, Optimized Brownfield Deployment of 100-GbE over Metro Networks using 4x25G and 10x10G Optical CFP Interfaces, OSA Optical Fiber Communications - OFC, Anaheim, United States, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 3, March, 2013 | BibTex
A. Eira, J. M. Pedro, J. J. O. Pires, On the Impact of Optimized Guard-Band Assignment for Superchannels in Flexible-Grid Optical Networks, OSA Optical Fiber Communications - OFC, Anaheim, United States, Vol., pp. 1 - 3, March, 2013 | BibTex
J. Santos, G. L. Lehmann, J. M. Pedro, On the Coexistence of Multi-Channel 100 Gb/s Ethernet with Legacy Single-Channel Services in Metropolitan Networks, European Conference on Optical Communication ECOC, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 3, September, 2012 | BibTex
A. Eira, J. Santos, J. M. Pedro, J. J. O. Pires, Design of survivable flexible-grid DWDM networks with joint minimization of transponder cost and spectrum usage, European Conference on Optical Communication ECOC, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 3, September, 2012 | BibTex
J. M. Pedro, J. Santos, R.M. Morais, Dynamic Setup of Multi-Granular Services over Next-Generation OTN/DWDM Networks: Blocking versus Add/Drop Port Usage, International Conf. on Transparent Optical Networks - ICTON, Coventry, United Kingdom, Vol. --, pp. 1 - 5, July, 2012,
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A. Eira, J. M. Pedro, R.M. Morais, J. J. O. Pires, On the cost-effective deployment of future data services over transport networks with a flexible DWDM grid, International Conf. on Transparent Optical Networks - ICTON, Coventry, United Kingdom, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 5, July, 2012 | BibTex
A. N. Pinto, R.M. Morais, J. M. Pedro, P. Monteiro, Cost Evaluation in Optical Networks: Node Architecture and Energy Consumption, International Conf. on Transparent Networks – ICTON, Coventry, United Kingdom, Vol. 1, pp. Tu.D2.4-1 - Tu.D2.4-4, July, 2012 | BibTex
J. Santos, J. M. Pedro, A. Eira, P. Monteiro, J. J. O. Pires, 'Optical Transport Network Design with Collocated Regeneration and Differential Delay Compensation, IEEE Workshop on High Performance Switching and Routing, Belgrade, Serbia & Montenegro, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 6, June, 2012 | BibTex
A. Eira, J. M. Pedro, J. J. O. Pires, Cost-optimized dimensioning of translucent WDM networks with Mixed-Line-Rate spectrum-flexible channels, IEEE Workshop on High Performance Switching and Routing, Belgrade, Serbia & Montenegro, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 6, June, 2012 | BibTex
A. Eira, J. M. Pedro, J. J. O. Pires, Spectrum and transponder optimization in survivable translucent flexible-grid optical networks, IEEE ICC Workshop - New Trends in Optical Networks Survivability, Ottawa, Canada, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 6, June, 2012 | BibTex
J. Santos, J. M. Pedro, J. J. O. Pires, Optimized Provisioning of 100-GbE Services over OTN based on Shared Protection with Collocated Signal Regeneration and Differential Delay Compensation, OSA Optical Fiber Communications - OFC, Los Angeles, United States, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 3, March, 2012 | BibTex
A. Eira, J. M. Pedro, J. J. O. Pires, Optimized Design of Shared Restoration in Flexible-Grid Transparent Optical Networks, OSA Optical Fiber Communications - OFC, Los Angeles, United States, Vol. --, pp. -- - --, March, 2012,
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J. M. Pedro, S. Pato, Quantifying the Impact of DWDM Nodes with Flexible Add/Drop Port Utilization for Dynamic Connection Setup, OSA Optical Fiber Communications - OFC, Los Angeles, United States, Vol. --, pp. -- - --, March, 2012,
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J. Santos, J. M. Pedro, P. Monteiro, J. J. O. Pires, Enhanced Differential Delay Compensation in OTN with Dedicated and Shared Buffering Architectures, European Conference on Optical Communication ECOC, Geneve, Switzerland, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 3, September, 2011,
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J. Santos, J. M. Pedro, A. Eira, P. Monteiro, J. J. O. Pires, Virtual Concatenation of 100-GbE over OTN: Tradeoffs Between Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Multiplexing, Symp. on Enabling Optical Networks - SEON, Aveiro, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 4, July, 2011 | BibTex
A. Eira, J. M. Pedro, J. J. O. Pires, Evaluating the Impact of a Flexible-Grid and 400 Gb/s Channels on the Capacity of Optical Transport Networks, Symp. on Enabling Optical Networks - SEON, Aveiro, Portugal, Vol. --, pp. -- - --, July, 2011,
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J. Santos, J. M. Pedro, P. Monteiro, J. J. O. Pires, Cost-Optimized Planning for Supporting 100 Gb/s and 40 Gb/s Services over Channel Count-Limited Optical Transport Networks, IEEE International Conference on Communications - ICC, Kyoto, Japan, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 6, June, 2011 | BibTex
J. Santos, J. M. Pedro, P. Monteiro, J. J. O. Pires, Multi-Stage Optimization Framework for Transporting 100-GbE over OTN with Distributed Differential Delay Compensation, IEEE International Workshop on Computer-Aided Modeling Analysis and Design of Communication Links and Networks - IEEE CAMAD, Kyoto, Japan, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 5, June, 2011 | BibTex
J. M. Pedro, J. Santos, J. J. O. Pires, Performance Evaluation of Integrated OTN/DWDM Networks with Single-Stage Multiplexing of Optical Channel Data Units, International Conf. on Transparent Networks – ICTON, Stockholm, Sweden, Vol. --, pp. Tu.B5.6 - --, June, 2011,
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J. M. Pedro, S. Pato, Towards Fully Flexible Optical Node Architectures: Impact on Blocking Performance of DWDM Transport Networks, International Conf. on Transparent Networks – ICTON, Stockholm, Sweden, Vol. --, pp. Th.A6.3 - --, June, 2011,
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S. Pato, J. M. Pedro, P. Monteiro, H. A. Silva, Prospects of supporting distributed antenna systems over next-generation optical access and metro-access networks, International Conf. on Transparent Networks – ICTON, Stockholm, Sweden, Vol. --, pp. -- - --, June, 2011,
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J. Santos, J. M. Pedro, P. Monteiro, J. J. O. Pires, Impact of Collocated Regeneration and Differential Delay Compensation in Optical Transport Networks, Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Lisbon, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 4, April, 2011 | Full text (PDF 117 KBs) | BibTex
CS Santiago, BG Gangopadhyay, J. M. Pedro, Planning a Urban Radio over Fibre Network, IEEE Region 8 EUROCON 2011 International Conf. on Computer as a Tool joint with the Conf. on Telecommunications, Lisboa, Portugal, Vol. --, pp. -- - --, April, 2011,
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J. Santos, J. M. Pedro, P. Monteiro, J. J. O. Pires, Scalable and Cost-Effective Design of Optical Transport Networks Supporting Heterogeneous Ethernet Services, European Conference on Optical Communication ECOC, Torino, Italy, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 3, September, 2010,
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J. M. Pedro, J. Santos, P. Monteiro, J. J. O. Pires, Optimization framework for supporting 40 Gb/s and 100 Gb/s services over optical transport networks, International Conf. on Transparent Networks – ICTON, Munich, Germany, Vol. --, pp. Mo.D4.1 - --, July, 2010,
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J. Santos, J. M. Pedro, P. Monteiro, J. J. O. Pires, CAPEX Minimization in Optical Transport Networks with Heterogeneous Service Demands, European Conf. on Networks and Optical Communications - NOC, Faro, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 6, June, 2010,
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J. Santos, J. M. Pedro, P. Monteiro, J. J. O. Pires, Simplified Framework for Optimal Support of 40Gb/s and 100Gb/s Services over OTN Exploiting Grooming and VCAT, OSA Optical Fiber Communications - OFC, San Diego, United States, Vol. --, pp. -- - --, March, 2010 | BibTex
J. Santos, J. M. Pedro, P. Monteiro, J. J. O. Pires, Heuristic Strategies for Routing 100-GbE over OTN in Distributed Differential Delay Compensation Architectures, OSA Optical Fiber Communications - OFC, San Diego, United States, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 2, March, 2010,
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J. M. Pedro, J. J. O. Pires, J.P.C Carvalho, Distributed Routing Path Optimization for OBS Networks based on Ant Colony Optimization, IEEE Global Communications Conference - GLOBECOM, Honolulu, United States, Vol. --, pp. 1 - 7, November, 2009,
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D. Wake, S. Pato, J. M. Pedro, E. Lopez, N. J. G. Gomes, P. Monteiro, A Comparison of Remote Radio Head Optical Transmission Technologies for Next Generation Wireless Systems, IEEE Lasers and Electro Optics Society Annual Meeting - LEOS, Belek-Antalya, Turkey, Vol. --, pp. -- - --, October, 2009,
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J. Santos, J. M. Pedro, P. Monteiro, J. J. O. Pires, Optical Transport Network Design for Inverse-Multiplexed 100 Gb/s Ethernet Services with Minimum Capacity and Buffer Requirements, International Conf. on Systems and Networks Communications, Porto, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 6, September, 2009,
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J. Santos, J. M. Pedro, P. Monteiro, J. J. O. Pires, Optimized ODU Routing for 100 Gb/s Ethernet over High-Speed Optical Networks with Distributed Differential Delay Compensation, European Conference on Optical Communication ECOC, Wien, Austria, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 2, September, 2009,
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J. M. Pedro, P. Monteiro, J. J. O. Pires, Optimized combination of wavelength converters and optical buffers for OBS networks using wavelength contention minimization, International Conf. on Photonics in Switching - PS, Pisa, Italy, Vol. --, pp. 1 - 2, September, 2009,
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P. Monteiro, S. Pato, J. M. Pedro, J. Santos, D. Wake, N. J. G. Gomes, E. Lopez, A. Gameiro, Radio-over-fiber as the enabler for joint processing of spatially separated radio signals, Summer Topical Meetings - LEOS, Newport Beach, United States, Vol. -, pp. 43 - 44, August, 2009 | BibTex
J. Santos, J. M. Pedro, P. Monteiro, J. J. O. Pires, Multilayer Optimization of Inverse-Multiplexed 100 Gb/s Ethernet Services over Optical Transport Networks, Euro-Ngi Conf. on Next Generation Internet Networks (NGI), Aveiro, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 8, July, 2009,
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S. Pato, J. M. Pedro, P. Monteiro, Comparative evaluation of fibre-optic architectures for next-generation distributed antenna systems, International Conf. on Transparent Networks – ICTON, Ponta Delgada, Azores, Portugal, Vol. --, pp. -- - --, July, 2009,
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J. M. Pedro, J. J. O. Pires, J.P.C Carvalho, Ant Colony Optimization for Distributed Routing Path Optimization in Optical Burst-Switched Networks, International Fuzzy Systems Association and European Society for Fuzzy Logic and Technology IFSA/EUSFLAT, Lisboa, Portugal, Vol. --, pp. 1 - 6, July, 2009,
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J. Santos, J. M. Pedro, P. Monteiro, J. J. O. Pires, Alternatives for the Virtually-Concatenated Transport of 100 Gb/s Ethernet over OTN, Symp. on Enabling Optical Networks - SEON, Amadora, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 2, June, 2009 | BibTex
J. M. Pedro, P. Monteiro, J. J. O. Pires, Optimized Node Dimensioning in OBS Networks using Contention Minimization in the Wavelength Domain, International Conf. on Transparent Networks – ICTON, Ponta Delgada, Portugal, Vol. Mo.D3.2, pp. 1 - 4, June, 2009,
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S. Pato, J. M. Pedro, J. Santos, P. R. M. I. Inácio, P. Monteiro, On Building a Distributed Antenna System with Joint Signal Processing for Next Generation Wireless Access Networks: The FUTON Approach, Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Sta Maria Feira, Portugal, Vol. --, pp. -- - --, May, 2009,
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S. Pato, J. M. Pedro, J. Santos, H. A. Silva, J. J. O. Pires, P. Monteiro, All-Optical Remote Node for Cost-Effective Metro-Access Convergence, Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Sta Maria Feira, Portugal, Vol. --, pp. -- - --, May, 2009,
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J. M. Pedro, P. Monteiro, J. J. O. Pires, On the Benefits of Selectively Delaying Bursts at the Ingress Edge Nodes of an OBS Network, IFIP Working Conf. on Optical Network Design and Modeling, Braunschweig, Germany, Vol. --, pp. -- - --, February, 2009,
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J. M. Pedro, P. Monteiro, J. J. O. Pires, Performance Study of OBS Networks using Traffic Engineering in the Wavelength Domain and Delayed Ingress Burst Scheduling, IEEE Global Communications Conference - GLOBECOM, New Orleans, United States, Vol. --, pp. ON07PM2-6 - --, December, 2008,
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J. Castro, J. M. Pedro, P. Monteiro, Routing and Buffer Placement Optimization in Optical Burst Switched Networks, IEEE Conf. on Local Computer Networks, Montreal, Canada, Vol. --, pp. 353 - 360, October, 2008,
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P. Monteiro, J. M. Pedro, S. Pato, J. V. Gomes, R. Meleiro, J. Santos, HR Rohde, RW Winkelmann, Challenges and Trends in Optical Networking: A Bottom-Up Approach, IEEE BROADNETS, London, United Kingdom, Vol. -, pp. - - -, September, 2008,
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J. M. Pedro, P. Monteiro, J. J. O. Pires, Performance Comparison of Optical Burst-Switched Networks with Flexible Burst Scheduling at the Ingress Edge Nodes, International Conf. on Transparent Networks – Mediterranean Winter - ICTON MW, Athens, Greece, Vol. 3, pp. 166 - 169, June, 2008,
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S. Pato, J. Santos, J. M. Pedro, P. Monteiro, H. A. Silva, On Supporting Radio over Fiber and Passive Optical Network Systems with a Common Fiber Plant: Compatibility Aspects, International Conf. on Transparent Networks – Mediterranean Winter - ICTON MW, Athens, Greece, Vol. --, pp. -- - --, June, 2008,
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S. Pato, J. M. Pedro, J. Santos, P. Monteiro, A. Gameiro, Fibre Optic Networks for Distributed Radio Architectures: topology overview, Symp. on Enabling Optical Networks - SEON, Porto, Portugal, Vol. --, pp. -- - --, June, 2008,
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J. Santos, J. M. Pedro, P. Monteiro, J. J. O. Pires, Long-Reach 10 Gbps Ethernet Passive Optical Network Based on a Protected Ring Architecture, OSA Optical Fiber Communications - OFC, San Diego, United States, Vol. OTul, pp. 1 - 3, February, 2008,
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J. M. Pedro, P. Monteiro, J. J. O. Pires, Bandwidth-Efficient Optical Burst-Switched Networks using only a Minimum Number of Shared Wavelength Converters, OSA Optical Fiber Communications - OFC, San Diego, United States, Vol. JWA89, pp. -- - --, February, 2008,
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J. Santos, J. M. Pedro, P. Monteiro, J. J. O. Pires, Design and Performance Evaluation of Protected Super-PON Access Networks Using a Dedicated Protection Ring Architecture, SEE Workshop on the Design of Reliable Communication Networks - DRCN, La Rochelle, France, Vol. 1, pp. 7 - 10, October, 2007,
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J. M. Pedro, P. Monteiro, J. J. O. Pires, Bandwidth-Efficient Optical Burst-Switched Networks based on Traffic Engineering in the Wavelength Domain and Delayed Burst Scheduling, European Conference on Optical Communication ECOC, Berlin, Germany, Vol. 1, pp. 95 - 96, September, 2007,
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J. M. Pedro, P. Monteiro, J. J. O. Pires, Efficient Optical Burst-Switched Networks using only Fiber Delay Line Buffers for Contention Resolution, IEEE BROADNETS, Raleigh, United States, Vol. Workshop on Optical Burst/Packet Switching (WOBS), pp. -- - --, September, 2007,
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J. M. Pedro, P. Monteiro, J. J. O. Pires, On Fully Exploiting the Space Domain for Contention Resolution/Avoidance in Optical Burst-Switched Networks, International Conf. on Transparent Networks – Mediterranean Winter - ICTON MW, Rome, Italy, Vol. --, pp. 113 - 116, July, 2007,
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J. M. Pedro, P. Monteiro, J. J. O. Pires, Minimizing the Number of Wavelength Converters in Optical Burst-Switched Networks, IEEE International Conference on Communications - ICC, Glasgow, United Kingdom, Vol. --, pp. ONS07-5 - --, June, 2007,
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J. M. Pedro, P. Monteiro, J. J. O. Pires, Reactive and Proactive Multi-Path Routing Strategies for Optical Burst-Switched Networks, Symp. on Enabling Optical Networks - SEON, Aveiro, Portugal, Vol. --, pp. -- - --, June, 2007,
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J. M. Pedro, P. Monteiro, Performance Modelling of Optical Burst-Switched Networks with Recirculating Fibre Delay Line Buffers, Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Peniche, Portugal, Vol. --, pp. 477 - 480, May, 2007,
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J. M. Pedro, P. Monteiro, J. J. O. Pires, Efficient Multi-Path Routing for Optical Burst-Switched Networks, Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Peniche, Portugal, Vol. --, pp. 473 - 476, May, 2007,
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J. M. Pedro, P. Monteiro, J. J. O. Pires, Towards Efficient Optical Burst-Switched Networks without All-Optical Wavelength Converters, Conf. on Optical Networks Design and Modelling - ONDM, Athens, Greece, Vol. --, pp. 348 - 357, May, 2007,
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J. Santos, Quadros, J. J. O. Pires, J. M. Pedro, Performance Evaluation of DBA Algorithms with QoS in Protected Super-EPON Access Networks using a Dedicated Protection Ring Architecture, Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Peniche, Portugal, Vol. X, pp. X - X, May, 2007 | BibTex
J. M. Pedro, P. Monteiro, J. J. O. Pires, Improving the Performance of Optical Burst-Switched Networks with Limited-Range Wavelength Conversion through Traffic Engineering in the Wavelength Domain, IEEE International Conf. on Information Networking - ICOIN, Estoril, Portugal, Vol. --, pp. -- - --, January, 2007,
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J. M. Pedro, P. Monteiro, J. J. O. Pires, Wavelength Contention Minimization Strategies for Optical Burst-Switched Networks, IEEE Global Communications Conference - GLOBECOM, San Francisco, United States, Vol. --, pp. -- - --, November, 2006,
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J. M. Pedro, P. Monteiro, J. J. O. Pires, Performance Evaluation of Wavelength Contention Minimization Strategies for Optical Burst-Switched Networks, SPIE, Boston, United States, Vol. 6388, pp. 63880D-1 - 63880D-12, October, 2006,
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J. M. Pedro, P. Monteiro, J. J. O. Pires, On the Modelling and Performance Evaluation of Optical Burst-Switched Networks, International Workshop on Computer-Aided Modeling, Analysis and Design of Communication Links and Networks, Trento, Italy, Vol. --, pp. 30 - 37, June, 2006,
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J. Santos, Quadros, J. J. O. Pires, J. M. Pedro, Design and Optimization of Protected Super-PON Access Networks Using a Dedicated Protection Ring Architecture, Symp. on Enabling Optical Networks - SEON, Porto, Portugal, Vol. X, pp. 1 - 2, June, 2006 | BibTex
J. M. Pedro, S. Pato, P. Monteiro, J. J. O. Pires, Impact of Network State Information Availability on the Performance of Contention Resolution Strategies for OBS Networks, International Conf. on Telecommunications - ICT, Funchal, Portugal, Vol. --, pp. -- - --, May, 2006,
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J. M. Pedro, A. Teixeira, P. Monteiro, J. J. O. Pires, On a Portuguese Backbone Network of Reference, Symp. on Enabling Optical Networks - SEON, Aveiro, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 80 - 84, June, 2005,
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J. M. Pedro, P. Monteiro, Throughput Performance Comparison of the One-Way and Two-Way Resource Reservation Mechanisms for Optical Burst Switched Networks, Symp. on Enabling Optical Networks - SEON, Aveiro, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 22 - 26, June, 2005,
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J. M. Pedro, P. Monteiro, Burst Loss Reduction in OBS Networks by Minimizing Network Congestion, Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Tomar, Portugal, Vol. -, pp. - - -, April, 2005,
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J. M. Pedro, P. Monteiro, J. J. O. Pires, Performance Comparison of Resource Reservation Mechanisms for Optical Burst-Switched Networks, Winter School on Optical Core Networks, Aveiro, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. C17 - C22, February, 2005,
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D. Fonseca, P. Monteiro, A. Cartaxo, J. M. Pedro, Impact of electrical equalization and modulation depth on single sideband performance with linear and non-linear transmission, IASTED International Conf. on Optical Communication Systems and Networks - OCSN, Bannf, Canada, Vol. 1, pp. 870 - 875, July, 2004 | BibTex
J. M. Pedro, P. Monteiro, J. J. O. Pires, Comparison of Interconnection Architectures for WDM Shared Protection Rings, IASTED International Conf. on Optical Communication Systems and Networks - OCSN, Banff, Canada, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 1, July, 2004,
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J. J. O. Pires, J. M. Pedro, Efficient Routing and Wavelenght Assignment in WDM Shared Protection Rings, Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Aveiro, Portugal, Vol., pp. 513 - 516, June, 2003 | BibTex

Projects

Closed Projects1

Acronym	Name	Funding Agency	Start date	Ending date
ImpAr	Physical Impairment Modelling in Flexible Optical Node Architectures	IT/LA	01-07-2016	01-07-2018

Other Scientific Achievements

2Awards

J. M. Pedro, A. Souza, Impact of Channel Provisioning Strategies in the Transient Resiliency of SuperC+L-band Networks, Best paper award at the 14th International Workshop on Resilient Networks Design and Modeling (RNDM 2024), 01-11-2024
J. M. Pedro, A. Eira, The Role of Metro Transport Node Architectures in Optimized Edge Data-Center Dimensioning, Best paper award at the 24th International Conference on Optical Network Design and Modelling (ONDM 2020), 01-05-2020

1Tutorials

J. M. Pedro, Designing the Next-Generation of Flexible and Reliable Optical Transport Networks

Other Contributions

7Conference Committees

OSA Advanced Photonics Congress, Technical Programme Committee, 2020
OSA Advanced Photonics Congress, Technical Programme Committee, 2020
OSA Advanced Photonics Congress, Technical Programme Committee, 2020
OSA Optical Fiber Communications - OFC, Technical Programme Chairman, 2018
OSA Optical Fiber Communications - OFC, Technical Programme Committee, 2017
OSA Optical Fiber Communications - OFC, Technical Programme Committee, 2016
OSA Optical Fiber Communications - OFC, Technical Programme Committee, 2015

13Refereeing Journals

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters
2016, 1 review(s); 2013, 1 review(s);
Journal of Optical Communications and Networking
2018, 4 review(s); 2016, 4 review(s); 2015, 1 review(s); 2014, 3 review(s); 2011, 1 review(s);
Journal of Lightwave Technology
2014, 1 review(s);
IEEE Communications Letters
2018, 1 review(s); 2012, 1 review(s);
Journal of Communication and Information Systems
2007, 1 review(s); 2006, 1 review(s);
Computer Networks & ISDN Systems
2007, 1 review(s);
Journal of Networks
2007, 1 review(s);
Journal of Optical Networking
2007, 1 review(s);
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
2007, 1 review(s);
IET Optoelectronics
2011, 1 review(s);
Optics & Laser Technology
2009, 1 review(s);
Journal of High Speed Networks
2012, 1 review(s);
Optical Switching and Networking
2012, 1 review(s);

4Refereeing Conferences

International Conf. on Telecommunications - ICT
2007, 1 review(s);
IEEE International Conference on Communications - ICC
2009, 1 review(s); 2008, 1 review(s);
IEEE International Conf. on Computer Communication and Networks - ICCCN
2009, 1 review(s);
Simpósio Brasileiro de Telecomunicações SBrT
2013, 1 review(s);

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IT Member Profile

João Pedro

19-12-2024

João Pedro and André Souza won the Best Paper Award at the RNDM 2024

15-10-2024

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30-09-2024

IT researchers in the top 2% of most-cited scientists worldwide

24-10-2023

IT Researchers ranked among the Top 2% Scientists Worldwide by Stanford University

Scientific Achievements

As Co-supervisor

As Co-supervisor

Closed Projects1