Speaker: Prof. Suresh Subramaniam (George WashingtonUniversity, IEEE Fellow)

Time: 20:00-22:00 p.m., June 28, 2023, GMT+8

Venue: Zoom Meeting ID: 815 1948 4525 Passcode: 070090

Abstract:

Fiber optic transmissionhasdominatedlong-distancecommunications for several decades. Numerous technological advances that have tremendously increased the reach, speed and reliability of optical communications have been constantly outpaced by the ever-increasing demand for bandwidth. More recently, optical transmission has expanded its reach into metroand access networks. This is the first of a three-part lecture series. This lecture starts with a gentleintroduction to optical transmission and wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) and will then present some more recent advances in optical switching andtransmission that have enabled the allocation of spectrum to optical connections at amuch finer granularity than traditional WDM. Networks that employ such ransmission and switching are called as elastic optical networks due to their abilitto fit the spectrum to the demanded bandwidth.

Biography:

Suresh Subramaniam is Vice Provost for Graduate and Postdoctoral Affairs and Professor of Electricaland Computer Engineering at the George Washington University in Washington DC, where he directs the Lab for Intelligent Networking and Computing. He received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Washington in 1997. His research interests are in the architectural, algorithmicand performance aspects of communication networks, with current emphasis on optical networks, cloudnetworks, and IoT. He has published over 250 peer-reviewed papers in these computing.data center areas, and his research has been supported by several grants from the US National Science Foundationand the Defense Advanced Research Proiects Agency (DARPA).

Source: School of Electronics