A Roadmap on Optical X-Haul Technologies for Next-Generation Mobile Networks.

Johannes K. Fischer Johannes Karl Fischer Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications, Heinrich-Hertz-Institute, Berlin, Germany https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1886-6633

Mihail Balanici Sepideh Mohammadi Kouhini Mahtab Aghaeipour Sebastian Kühl Behnam Shariati Johannes Karl Fischer Colja Schubert Kai Habel Stephan Pachnicke André C. Drummond Thomas Bauschert Volker Jungnickel Ronald Freund A Roadmap on Optical X-Haul Technologies for Next-Generation Mobile Networks. 102-108 2025 September 63 IEEE Commun. Mag. 9 https://doi.org/10.1109/MCOM.001.2400659 db/journals/cm/cm63.html#BalaniciKAKSFSHPDBJF25 streams/journals/cm

André C. Drummond Osman Tugay Basaran Abhishek Dandekar Max Franke 0001 Mihail Balanici Iulisloi Zacarias Ítalo Brasileiro Cao Vien Phung Ehsan Tohidi Naveed Ali Kaim Khani Sepideh Mohammadi Kouhini Lorenzo Miretti Zoran Utkovski Emre Durmaz Julius Schulz-Zander Setareh Maghsudi Stefan Schmid 0001 Falko Dressler Behnam Shariati Johannes Karl Fischer Ronald Freund Slawomir Stanczak Admela Jukan Empowering Smart Factories With Open RAN. 78-85 2025 September 9 IEEE Commun. Stand. Mag. 3 https://doi.org/10.1109/MCOMSTD.2025.3572533 db/journals/csm/csm9.html#DrummondBDFBZBPTKKMUDSM25 streams/journals/csm

Matheus Ribeiro Sena Abdelrahmane Moawad Robert Emmerich Behnam Shariati Marc Geitz Ralf-Peter Braun Johannes K. Fischer Ronald Freund Exploring the potential of longitudinal power monitoring for detecting physical-layer attacks [Invited]. 30 2025 17 J. Opt. Commun. Netw. 7 https://doi.org/10.1364/jocn.554766 db/journals/jocnet/jocnet17.html#SenaMESGBFF25 streams/journals/jocnet

Angela Mitrovska Behnam Shariati Aydin Jafari Pooyan Safari Johannes Karl Fischer Ronald Freund Network data sharing: a governance framework for ensuring data sovereignty and privacy compliance. 1019-1031 2025 November 17 J. Opt. Commun. Netw. 11 https://doi.org/10.1364/JOCN.559523 db/journals/jocnet/jocnet17.html#MitrovskaSJSFF25 streams/journals/jocnet

Vignesh Karunakaran Ronald Romero Reyes Behnam Shariati Johannes Karl Fischer Achim Autenrieth Thomas Bauschert Dynamic network-aware soft failure localization using machine learning in optical networks. 1032-1046 2025 November 17 J. Opt. Commun. Netw. 11 https://doi.org/10.1364/JOCN.564177 db/journals/jocnet/jocnet17.html#KarunakaranRSFAB25 streams/journals/jocnet

Enes Seker Rijil Thomas Guillermo von Hünefeld Stephan Suckow Mahdi Kaveh Gregor Ronniger Pooyan Safari Isaac Sackey David Stahl Colja Schubert Johannes Karl Fischer Ronald Freund Max Christian Lemme Hardware realization of neuromorphic computing with a 4-port photonic reservoir for modulation format identification. 34012 2025 5 Neuromorph. Comput. Eng. 3 https://doi.org/10.1088/2634-4386/adf6d0 db/journals/neuromorphic/neuromorphic5.html#SekerTHSKRSSSSFFL25 streams/journals/neuromorphic

Hassan Akbari Xiao Ma Behnam Shariati Pooyan Safari Angela Mitrovska Johannes K. Fischer Stephan Pachnicke Jasper Müller Ronald Freund Leveraging Shared Data and Models for ML-Based QoT Estimation: Toward Standardized and Generalizable Models. 1-4 2025 ECOC https://doi.org/10.1109/ECOC66593.2025.11263378 conf/ecoc/2025 db/conf/ecoc/ecoc2025.html#AkbariMSSMFPMF25 streams/conf/ecoc Aydin Jafari Behnam Shariati Hussein Zaid Pooyan Safari Vignesh Karunakaran Philomena Moek Ramon Casellas Achim Autenrieth Johannes Karl Fischer LLM Assistant for TAPI Context and Client Code Translation. 1-4 2025 ECOC https://doi.org/10.1109/ECOC66593.2025.11263212 conf/ecoc/2025 db/conf/ecoc/ecoc2025.html#JafariSZSKMCAF25 streams/conf/ecoc Nicolas Braig-Christophersen Aymeric Arnould Robert Elschner Carsten Schmidt-Langhorst Ruben S. Luis Pamir Oezsuna Kallyan Das Juan L. Moreno Morrone Robert Emmerich Kazuhiko Aikawa Hideaki Furukawa Georg Rademacher Johannes K. Fischer Colja Schubert Ronald Freund Experimental Validation of Partitioned MIMO Equalizer with Low-Resolution Interface for Mitigation of Mode-Group Coupling in SDM Transmission over 3-Mode Fiber. 1-3 2025 OFC https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11046711 conf/ofc/2025 db/conf/ofc/ofc2025.html#Braig-Christophersen25 Lluis Gifre Andrea Sgambelluri Carlos Manso Michael Enrico H. Zaid Nicola Sambo Waleed Akbar Carsten Schmidt-Langhorst F. Javier Vilchez Colja Schubert Ricard Vilalta Behnam Shariati Johannes K. Fischer Josep M. Fàbrega Ronald Freund Raul Muñoz 0001 Dynamic Adaptation of IP Virtual Network Topologies over Multi-Granular (Wavelength and Waveband) Optical Networks Supported by ETSI TeraFlowSDN multi-layer Control. 1-3 2025 OFC https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11046770 conf/ofc/2025 db/conf/ofc/ofc2025.html#GifreSMEZSASVSV25 Yusuke Hirota Sugang Xu Angela Mitrovska Yuki Yoshida 0001 Pooyan Safari Behnam Shariati Johannes K. Fischer Ronald Freund Hideaki Furukawa Kouichi Akahane Yoshinari Awaji International Testbed Data Sharing Framework with Data Sovereign Features for Network AI/ML Empowerment. 1-3 2025 OFC https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11046661 conf/ofc/2025 db/conf/ofc/ofc2025.html#HirotaXMYSSFFFA25 Guillermo von Hünefeld Mahdi Kaveh Joseph Hopfmüller Pooyan Safari Enes Seker Rijil Thomas Mahtab Aghaeipour David Stahl Stephan Suckow Max Christian Lemme Johannes Karl Fischer Colja Schubert Ronald Freund Live Demonstration of Modulation Format Identification Using a Photonic Neural Network. 1-3 2025 OFC https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11046766 conf/ofc/2025 db/conf/ofc/ofc2025.html#HunefeldKHSSTAS25 Angela Mitrovska Aydin Jafari Behnam Shariati Pooyan Safari Vignesh Karunakaran Achim Autenrieth Johannes Karl Fischer Ronald Freund Demonstration of End-to-End Cross-Border Service Provisioning and Monitoring Using TeraFlowSDN and Eclipse Dataspace Components Connectors. 1-3 2025 OFC https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11047049 conf/ofc/2025 db/conf/ofc/ofc2025.html#MitrovskaJSSKAF25 Abdelrahmane Moawad Robert Emmerich Hussein Zaid Caio Santos Alessio Giorgetti Roberto Morro Colja Schubert Behnam Shariati Johannes Karl Fischer Demonstration of a Programmable Node Prototype for Spatial Lane Switching and Band Switching. 1-3 2025 OFC https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11047131 conf/ofc/2025 db/conf/ofc/ofc2025.html#MoawadEZSGMSSF25 H. Zaid Abdelrahmane Moawad Behnam Shariati Robert Emmerich Alessio Giorgetti Ramon Casellas Carsten Schmidt-Langhorst E. Fernandez Pablo Pavón-Mariño Filippo Cugini Vignesh Karunakaran Emilio Riccardi Roberto Morro R. Bian Chris Matrakidis C. Santos P. Gonzalez L. Velasco Achim Autenrieth Colja Schubert Johannes Karl Fischer Ronald Freund Autonomous Service Provisioning and Self-Healing in Multi-Band Multi-Domain IPoWDM Networks. 1-3 2025 OFC https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11046607 conf/ofc/2025 db/conf/ofc/ofc2025.html#ZaidMSEGCSFPCKR25 Hussein Zaid Pooyan Safari Behnam Shariati Aydin Jafari Mihail Balanici Johannes Karl Fischer Multi-Agent Design for LLM-assisted Network Management. 1-3 2025 OFC https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11046468 conf/ofc/2025 db/conf/ofc/ofc2025.html#ZaidSSJBF25

Caio Santos Abdelrahmane Moawad Behnam Shariati Robert Emmerich Pooyan Safari Colja Schubert Johannes K. Fischer Experimental dataset for developing and testing ML models in optical communication systems. 1 2024 16 J. Opt. Commun. Netw. 11 https://doi.org/10.1364/jocn.531788 db/journals/jocnet/jocnet16.html#SantosMSESSF24 streams/journals/jocnet

Angela Mitrovska Marcel Fernandez Rosas Pooyan Safari Behnam Shariati Johannes Karl Fischer Ronald Freund Federated Learning Governance using Eclipse Dataspace Components Connectors. 7946-7954 2024 IEEE Big Data https://doi.org/10.1109/BigData62323.2024.10826122 conf/bigdataconf/2024 db/conf/bigdataconf/bigdataconf2024.html#MitrovskaRSSFF24 Mihail Balanici Behnam Shariati Pooyan Safari Geronimo Bergk Johannes Karl Fischer Autonomous Capacity Adjustment with Dynamic Margin Allocation for Optical Enterprise Links. 1-3 2024 OFC https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10526708 conf/ofc/2024 db/conf/ofc/ofc2024.html#BalaniciSSBF24 Mihail Balanici Pooyan Safari Behnam Shariati Aydin Jafari Johannes Karl Fischer Ronald Freund Live Demonstration of Autonomous Link-Capacity Adjustment in Optical Metro-Aggregation Networks. 1-3 2024 OFC https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10526615 conf/ofc/2024 db/conf/ofc/ofc2024.html#BalaniciSSJFF24 Vignesh Karunakaran Carlos Natalino Behnam Shariati Piotr Lechowicz Johannes Karl Fischer Achim Autenrieth Paolo Monti 0001 Thomas Bauschert TAPI-based Telemetry Streaming in Multi-domain Optical Transport Network. 1-3 2024 OFC https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10526531 conf/ofc/2024 db/conf/ofc/ofc2024.html#KarunakaranNSLFAMB24 Carlos Natalino Behnam Shariati Pooyan Safari Johannes Karl Fischer Paolo Monti 0001 Analysis and Mitigation of Unwanted Biases in ML-based QoT Classification Tasks. 1-3 2024 OFC https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10527202 conf/ofc/2024 db/conf/ofc/ofc2024.html#NatalinoSSFM24 Mihail Balanici Behnam Shariati Pooyan Safari Paul Chojecki Moritz Chemnitz David Przewozny Johannes Karl Fischer Ronald Freund F5G OpenLab: Enabling Twin Transition through Ubiquitous Fiber Connectivity. 1-4 2023 ICTON https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTON59386.2023.10207224 conf/icton/2023 db/conf/icton/icton2023.html#BalaniciSSCCPFF23 Pol González Ramon Casellas Jose-Juan Pedreno-Manresa Achim Autenrieth Fabien Boitier Behnam Shariati Johannes K. Fischer Marc Ruiz 0001 Jaume Comellas Luis Velasco 0001 Distributed Architecture Supporting Intelligent Optical Measurement Aggregation and Streaming Event Telemetry. 1-3 2023 OFC https://doi.org/10.23919/OFC49934.2023.10116593 conf/ofc/2023 db/conf/ofc/ofc2023.html#GonzalezCPABSFR23 Guillermo von Hünefeld Gregor Ronniger Enes Seker Rijil Thomas Pooyan Safari Isaac Sackey Md Mahasin Khan Stephan Suckow Max Christian Lemme David Stahl Colja Schubert Johannes Karl Fischer Ronald Freund Experimental Demonstration of Optical Modulation Format Identification Using SOI-based Photonic Reservoir. 1-3 2023 OFC https://doi.org/10.23919/OFC49934.2023.10116220 conf/ofc/2023 db/conf/ofc/ofc2023.html#HunefeldRSTSSKS23 Haydar Qarawlus Steffen Biehs Behnam Shariati José Juan Pedreño Manresa Ayoub Bouchedoub Hendrik Haße Pooyan Safari Achim Autenrieth Johannes K. Fischer Demonstration of Data-Sovereign Telemetry Broker for Open and Disaggregated Optical Networks. 1-3 2023 OFC https://doi.org/10.23919/OFC49934.2023.10116396 conf/ofc/2023 db/conf/ofc/ofc2023.html#QarawlusBSMBHSA23 Pooyan Safari Behnam Shariati Wanda Baltzer Johannes Karl Fischer QoT Violation in Low-Margin Optical Networks. 1-3 2023 OFC https://doi.org/10.23919/OFC49934.2023.10116474 conf/ofc/2023 db/conf/ofc/ofc2023.html#SafariSBF23 Behnam Shariati Haydar Qarawlus Steffen Biehs Jose-Juan Pedreno-Manresa Pooyan Safari Mihail Balanici Ayoub Bouchedoub Hendrik Haße Achim Autenrieth Johannes K. Fischer Ronald Freund Telemetry Framework with Data Sovereignty Features. 1-3 2023 OFC https://doi.org/10.23919/OFC49934.2023.10116581 conf/ofc/2023 db/conf/ofc/ofc2023.html#ShariatiQBPSBBH23

Luca Pesando Johannes K. Fischer Behnam Shariati Ronald Freund Jose Cananao Hongyu Li Yi Lin Olivier Ferveur Ming Jiang Jialiang Jin David Hillerkuss Marcus Brunner Jun Zhou Juan del Junco Hakim Mkinsi Xiang Liu Standardization of the 5th Generation Fixed Network for Enabling End-to-End Network Slicing and Quality-Assured Services. 96-103 2022 December 6 IEEE Commun. Stand. Mag. 4 https://doi.org/10.1109/MCOMSTD.0002.2100097 db/journals/csm/csm6.html#PesandoFSFCLLFJJHBZJML22

Behnam Shariati Luis Velasco 0001 Jose-Juan Pedreno-Manresa Annika Dochhan Ramon Casellas Abubakar Siddique Muqaddas Óscar González de Dios Lourdes Luque Canto Bodo Lent Jorge E. López de Vergara Sergio López-Buedo Francisco-Javier Moreno-Muro Pablo Pavón 0001 Marc Ruiz 0001 Sai Kireet Patri Alessio Giorgetti Filippo Cugini Andrea Sgambelluri Reza Nejabati Dimitra Simeonidou Ralf-Peter Braun Achim Autenrieth Jörg-Peter Elbers Johannes K. Fischer Ronald Freund Demonstration of latency-aware 5G network slicing on optical metro networks. A81-A90 2022 14 JOCN 1 https://doi.org/10.1364/jocn.438951 db/journals/jocnet/jocnet14.html#ShariatiVPDCMDC21

Geronimo Bergk Behnam Shariati Pooyan Safari Johannes K. Fischer ML-assisted QoT estimation: a dataset collection and data visualization for dataset quality evaluation. 43-55 2022 14 JOCN 3 https://doi.org/10.1364/jocn.442733 db/journals/jocnet/jocnet14.html#BergkSSF22

Takeshi Hoshida Vittorio Curri Lídia Galdino David T. Neilson Wladek Forysiak Johannes K. Fischer Tomoyuki Kato Pierluigi Poggiolini Ultrawideband Systems and Networks: Beyond C + L-Band. 1725-1741 2022 110 Proc. IEEE 11 https://doi.org/10.1109/JPROC.2022.3202103 db/journals/pieee/pieee110.html#HoshidaCGNFFKP22

Pooyan Safari Behnam Shariati David Przewozny Paul Chojecki Johannes Karl Fischer Ronald Freund Axel Vick Moritz Chemnitz Edge Cloud based Visual Inspection for Automatic Quality Assurance in Production. 473-476 2022 CSNDSP https://doi.org/10.1109/CSNDSP54353.2022.9907957 conf/csndsp/2022 db/conf/csndsp/csndsp2022.html#SafariSPCFFVC22 Behnam Shariati Geronimo Bergk Pooyan Safari Mihail Balanici Johannes K. Fischer Ronald Freund Traffic Monitoring and Analytics Framework for Optical Access Networks. 852-856 2022 CSNDSP https://doi.org/10.1109/CSNDSP54353.2022.9907906 conf/csndsp/2022 db/conf/csndsp/csndsp2022.html#ShariatiBSBFF22 Matheus Ribeiro Sena Robert Emmerich Behnam Shariati Johannes K. Fischer Ronald Freund Link Tomography for Amplifier Gain Profile Estimation and Failure Detection in C+L-band Open Line Systems. 1-3 2022 OFC https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9748466 conf/ofc/2022 db/conf/ofc/ofc2022.html#SenaESFF22 Behnam Shariati Wanda Baltzer Geronimo Bergk Pooyan Safari Johannes Karl Fischer Interactive Visual Analytics Dashboard for the Paradigm of ML-assisted Autonomous Optical Networking. 1-3 2022 OFC https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9748149 conf/ofc/2022 db/conf/ofc/ofc2022.html#ShariatiBBSF22

Behnam Shariati Luis Velasco 0001 Jose-Juan Pedreno-Manresa Annika Dochhan Ramon Casellas Abubakar Siddique Muqaddas Óscar González de Dios Lourdes Luque Canto Bodo Lent Jorge E. López de Vergara Sergio López-Buedo Francisco Javier Moreno Pablo Pavón 0001 Marc Ruiz 0001 Sai Kireet Patri Alessio Giorgetti Filippo Cugini Andrea Sgambelluri Reza Nejabati Dimitra Simeonidou Ralf-Peter Braun Achim Autenrieth Jörg-Peter Elbers Johannes K. Fischer Ronald Freund Demonstration of latency-aware 5G network slicing on optical metro networks. 2022 abs/2202.10118 CoRR https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.10118 db/journals/corr/corr2202.html#abs-2202-10118

Nazila Hashemi Pooyan Safari Behnam Shariati Johannes Karl Fischer Vertical Federated Learning for Privacy-Preserving ML Model Development in Partially Disaggregated Networks. 1-4 2021 ECOC https://doi.org/10.1109/ECOC52684.2021.9605846 conf/ecoc/2021 db/conf/ecoc/ecoc2021.html#HashemiSSF21 Gabriele Di Rosa Robert Emmerich Matheus Ribeiro Sena Johannes K. Fischer Colja Schubert André Richter Impact of Wavelength-Dependent I/Q Imbalances of Standard C-Band Transceivers in Rate-Adaptive Multiband Systems. 1-4 2021 ECOC https://doi.org/10.1109/ECOC52684.2021.9606117 conf/ecoc/2021 db/conf/ecoc/ecoc2021.html#RosaESFSR21 Pooyan Safari Behnam Shariati Geronimo Bergk Johannes Karl Fischer Secure Multi-Party Computation and Statistics Sharing for ML Model Training in Multi-domain Multi-vendor Networks. 1-4 2021 ECOC https://doi.org/10.1109/ECOC52684.2021.9606082 conf/ecoc/2021 db/conf/ecoc/ecoc2021.html#SafariSBF21 Pooyan Safari Behnam Shariati Geronimo Bergk Johannes Karl Fischer Deep Convolutional Neural Network for Network-wide QoT Estimation. 1-3 2021 OFC https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9489926 conf/ofc/2021 db/conf/ofc/ofc2021.html#SafariSBF21 Matheus Ribeiro Sena Robert Emmerich Behnam Shariati Johannes K. Fischer Ronald Freund Evaluation of an Autonomous Digital Pre-distortion Scheme for Optical Multiband Systems. 1-3 2021 OFC https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9490011 conf/ofc/2021 db/conf/ofc/ofc2021.html#SenaESFF21 Behnam Shariati Jose-Juan Pedreno-Manresa Annika Dochhan Abubakar Siddique Muqaddas Ramon Casellas Óscar González de Dios Lourdes Luque Canto Bodo Lent Jorge E. López de Vergara Sergio López-Buedo Francisco Javier Moreno Pablo Pavón 0001 Luis Velasco 0001 Sai Kireet Patri Alessio Giorgetti Filippo Cugini Andrea Sgambelluri Reza Nejabati Dimitra Simeonidou Ralf-Peter Braun Achim Autenrieth Jörg-Peter Elbers Johannes Karl Fischer Ronald Freund A Latency-Aware Real-Time Video Surveillance Demo: Network Slicing for Improving Public Safety. 1-3 2021 OFC https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9489743 conf/ofc/2021 db/conf/ofc/ofc2021.html#ShariatiPDMCDCL21 Behnam Shariati Pooyan Safari Geronimo Bergk Felix Immanuel Oertel Johannes Karl Fischer Inter-Operator Machine Learning Model Trading over Acumos AI Federated Marketplace. 1-3 2021 OFC https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9489395 conf/ofc/2021 db/conf/ofc/ofc2021.html#ShariatiSBOF21

Behnam Shariati Jose-Juan Pedreno-Manresa Annika Dochhan Abubakar Siddique Muqaddas Ramon Casellas Óscar González de Dios Lourdes Luque Canto Bodo Lent Jorge E. López de Vergara Sergio López-Buedo Francisco Javier Moreno Pablo Pavón 0001 Luis Velasco 0001 Sai Kireet Patri Alessio Giorgetti Filippo Cugini Andrea Sgambelluri Reza Nejabati Dimitra Simeonidou Ralf-Peter Braun Achim Autenrieth Jörg-Peter Elbers Johannes Karl Fischer Ronald Freund A Latency-Aware Real-Time Video Surveillance Demo: Network Slicing for Improving Public Safety. 2021 abs/2107.02505 CoRR https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.02505 db/journals/corr/corr2107.html#abs-2107-02505

Francesco Paolucci Robert Emmerich António Eira Nelson Costa João Pedro 0001 Pablo Wilke Berenguer Colja Schubert Johannes K. Fischer Francesco Fresi Andrea Sgambelluri Filippo Cugini Disaggregated edge-enabled C+L-band filterless metro networks. 2-12 2020 12 JOCN 3 https://doi.org/10.1364/jocn.12.000002 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q126569461 db/journals/jocnet/jocnet12.html#PaolucciEEC0BSF20

Matheus Ribeiro Sena M. Sezer Erkilinç Thomas Dippon Behnam Shariati Robert Emmerich Johannes K. Fischer Ronald Freund An Autonomous Identification and Pre-distortion Scheme for Cognitive Transceivers using Bayesian Optimization. 1-4 2020 ECOC https://doi.org/10.1109/ECOC48923.2020.9333408 conf/ecoc/2020 db/conf/ecoc/ecoc2020.html#SenaEDSEFF20 Behnam Shariati Pooyan Safari Angela Mitrovska Nazila Hashemi Johannes Karl Fischer Ronald Freund Demonstration of Federated Learning over Edge-Computing Enabled Metro Optical Networks. 1-4 2020 ECOC https://doi.org/10.1109/ECOC48923.2020.9333246 conf/ecoc/2020 db/conf/ecoc/ecoc2020.html#ShariatiSMHFF20 Sebastian Stern Masoud Barakatain Felix Frey Johannes Pfeiffer Johannes K. Fischer Robert F. H. Fischer Coded Modulation for Four-Dimensional Signal Constellations with Concatenated Non-Binary Forward Error Correction. 1-4 2020 ECOC https://doi.org/10.1109/ECOC48923.2020.9333330 conf/ecoc/2020 db/conf/ecoc/ecoc2020.html#SternBFPFF20 Matheus Ribeiro Sena Yaonian Cui Gerrit Fiol Behnam Shariati Antonio Napoli Johannes K. Fischer Martin Schell Ronald Freund Performance Evaluation of InP-Based DP-IQ Modulators for Multiband Transmission Systems. 1-4 2020 ICTON https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTON51198.2020.9203554 conf/icton/2020 db/conf/icton/icton2020.html#SenaCFSNFSF20 Annika Dochhan Johannes K. Fischer Bodo Lent Achim Autenrieth Behnam Shariati Pablo Wilke Berenguer Jörg-Peter Elbers Metro-Haul Project Vertical Service Demo: Video Surveillance Real-Time Low-Latency Object Tracking. 1-3 2020 OFC https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9083313 conf/ofc/2020 db/conf/ofc/ofc2020.html#DochhanFLASBE20 Robert Emmerich António Eira Nelson Costa Pablo Wilke Berenguer Colja Schubert Johannes Karl Fischer João Pedro 0001 Capacity Limits of C+L Metro Transport Networks Exploiting Dual-Band Node Architectures. 1-3 2020 OFC https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9082982 conf/ofc/2020 db/conf/ofc/ofc2020.html#EmmerichECBSFP30 Isaac Sackey Carsten Schmidt-Langhorst Colja Schubert Johannes Karl Fischer Ronald Freund Experimental Comparison of Fiber Nonlinearity Mitigation: Intra-Modal FWM versus Inter-Modal FWM. 1-3 2020 OFC https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9083450 conf/ofc/2020 db/conf/ofc/ofc2020.html#SackeySSFF30

Annika Dochhan Johannes K. Fischer Bodo Lent Achim Autenrieth Behnam Shariati Pablo Wilke Berenguer Jörg-Peter Elbers Metro-haul Project Vertical Service Demo: Video Surveillance Real-time Low-latency Object Tracking. 2020 abs/2006.04416 CoRR https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.04416 db/journals/corr/corr2006.html#abs-2006-04416

Pooyan Safari Behnam Shariati Johannes Karl Fischer Privacy-Preserving Distributed Learning Framework for 6G Telecom Ecosystems. 2020 abs/2008.07225 CoRR https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.07225 db/journals/corr/corr2008.html#abs-2008-07225

Alessio Ferrari 0002 Antonio Napoli Johannes K. Fischer Nelson Costa João Pedro 0001 Nicola Sambo Erwan Pincemin Bernd Sommerkorn-Krombholz Vittorio Curri Upgrade Capacity Scenarios Enabled by Multi-band Optical Systems. 1-4 2019 ICTON https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTON.2019.8840550 conf/icton/2019 db/conf/icton/icton2019.html#0002NFCPSPSC19 Behnam Shariati Kai Habel Volker Jungnickel Johannes K. Fischer Ronald Freund Photonics-Supported 5G Test Facilities for Low Latency Applications. 1-2 2019 ICTON https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTON.2019.8840155 conf/icton/2019 db/conf/icton/icton2019.html#ShariatiHJFF19 Bogdan-Mihai Andrus Silviu Adrian Sasu Thomas Szyrkowiec Achim Autenrieth Mohit Chamania Johannes K. Fischer Stephan Rasp Zero-Touch Provisioning of Distributed Video Analytics in a Software-Defined Metro-Haul Network with P4 Processing. 1-3 2019 OFC https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8696944 conf/ofc/2019 db/conf/ofc/ofc2019.html#AndrusSSACFR19 Francesco Paolucci Andrea Sgambelluri Robert Emmerich Alessio Giorgetti Piero Castoldi Colja Schubert Johannes Karl Fischer Filippo Cugini OpenConfig Control of 100G/400G Filterless Metro Networks with configurable Modulation Format and FEC. 1-3 2019 OFC https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8696282 conf/ofc/2019 db/conf/ofc/ofc2019.html#PaolucciSEGCSFC19

Felix Frey Johannes K. Fischer Robert F. H. Fischer On Discrete-Time/Frequency-Periodic End-to-End Fiber-Optical Channel Models. 2019 abs/1907.06087 CoRR http://arxiv.org/abs/1907.06087 db/journals/corr/corr1907.html#abs-1907-06087

Pablo Wilke Berenguer Dominic Schulz Jonas Hilt Peter Hellwig Gerhard Kleinpeter Johannes Karl Fischer Volker Jungnickel Optical Wireless MIMO Experiments in an Industrial Environment. 185-193 2018 36 IEEE J. Sel. Areas Commun. 1 https://doi.org/10.1109/JSAC.2017.2774618 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q57600446 db/journals/jsac/jsac36.html#BerenguerSHHKFJ18

Pablo Wilke Berenguer Peter Hellwig Dominic Schulz Jonas Hilt Gerhard Kleinpeter Johannes Karl Fischer Volker Jungnickel Real-Time Optical Wireless Communication: Field-Trial in an Industrial Production Environment. 1-3 2018 ECOC https://doi.org/10.1109/ECOC.2018.8535137 conf/ecoc/2018 db/conf/ecoc/ecoc2018.html#BerenguerHSHKFJ18 Felix Frey Robert Emmerich Colja Schubert Johannes K. Fischer Robert F. H. Fischer Improved Perturbation-Based Fiber Nonlinearity Compensation. 1-3 2018 ECOC https://doi.org/10.1109/ECOC.2018.8535303 conf/ecoc/2018 db/conf/ecoc/ecoc2018.html#FreyESFF18 Francesco Paolucci Robert Emmerich Francesco Fresi Isaac Sackey Luca Potì Colja Schubert Johannes K. Fischer Filippo Cugini Filterless Optical WDM Metro Networks Exploiting C+L Band. 1-3 2018 ECOC https://doi.org/10.1109/ECOC.2018.8535529 conf/ecoc/2018 db/conf/ecoc/ecoc2018.html#PaolucciEFSPSFC18 Johannes K. Fischer Mattia Cantono Vittorio Curri Ralf-Peter Braun Nelson Costa João Pedro 0001 Erwan Pincemin Philippe Doare Claude Le Bouëtté Antonio Napoli Maximizing the Capacity of Installed Optical Fiber Infrastructure Via Wideband Transmission. 1-4 2018 ICTON https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTON.2018.8473994 conf/icton/2018 db/conf/icton/icton2018.html#FischerCCBCPPDB18 Robert Elschner Robert Emmerich Carsten Schmidt-Langhorst Felix Frey Pablo Wilke Berenguer Johannes K. Fischer Helmut Grießer Danish Rafique Jörg-Peter Elbers Colja Schubert Improving Achievable Information Rates of 64-GBd PDM-64QAM by Nonlinear Transmitter Predistortion. 1-3 2018 OFC https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8385667 conf/ofc/2018 db/conf/ofc/ofc2018.html#ElschnerESFBFGR18 Moritz Baier Francisco M. Soares Zhennan Zheng Carsten Schmidt-Langhorst Robert Elschner Felix Frey Marko Gruner Johannes Karl Fischer Colja Schubert Martin Moehrle Norbert Grote Martin Schell 112 Gb/s PDM-PAM4 Generation and 80 km Transmission Using a Novel Monolithically Integrated Dual-Polarization Electro-Absorption Modulator InP PIC. 1-3 2017 ECOC https://doi.org/10.1109/ECOC.2017.8346039 conf/ecoc/2017 db/conf/ecoc/ecoc2017.html#BaierSZSEFGFSMG17 Pablo Wilke Berenguer Dominic Schulz Johannes Karl Fischer Volker Jungnickel Distributed 8×6 MIMO Experiments for Optical Wireless Communications. 1-3 2017 ECOC https://doi.org/10.1109/ECOC.2017.8346139 conf/ecoc/2017 db/conf/ecoc/ecoc2017.html#BerenguerSFJ17 Felix Frey Lutz Molle Robert Emmerich Colja Schubert Johannes K. Fischer Robert F. H. Fischer Single-step Perturbation-based Nonlinearity Compensation of Intra- and Inter-Subcarrier Nonlinear Interference. 1-3 2017 ECOC https://doi.org/10.1109/ECOC.2017.8345936 conf/ecoc/2017 db/conf/ecoc/ecoc2017.html#FreyMESFF17 Pablo Wilke Berenguer Volker Jungnickel Johannes Karl Fischer The benefit of frequency-selective rate adaptation for optical wireless communications. 1-6 2016 CSNDSP https://doi.org/10.1109/CSNDSP.2016.7573926 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q57600467 conf/csndsp/2016 db/conf/csndsp/csndsp2016.html#BerenguerJF16 Alessandro Aimone Iria Garcia Lopez Saleem Alreesh Pedro Rito Tino Brast V. Hohns Gerrit Fiol Marko Gruner Johannes K. Fischer Jörg Honecker Andreas G. Steffan Dietmar Kissinger Ahmet Cagri Ulusoy Martin Schell DAC-free ultra-low-power dual-polarization 64-QAM transmission with InP IQ segmented MZM module. 1-3 2016 OFC https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7537872 conf/ofc/2016 db/conf/ofc/ofc2016.html#AimoneLARBHFGFH16

Antonio Napoli Marc Bohn Danish Rafique Alexandros A. Stavdas Nicola Sambo Luca Potì Markus Nölle Johannes Karl Fischer Emilio Riccardi Annachiara Pagano Andrea Di Giglio Michela Svaluto Moreolo Josep Maria Fabrega Emilio Hugues-Salas Georgios Zervas Dimitra Simeonidou Patricia Layec Antonio D'Errico Talha Rahman Juan Pedro Fernández-Palacios Gimenez Next generation elastic optical networks: The vision of the European research project IDEALIST. 152-162 2015 53 IEEE Commun. Mag. 2 https://doi.org/10.1109/MCOM.2015.7045404 db/journals/cm/cm53.html#NapoliBRSSPNFRP15

Nicola Sambo Piero Castoldi Antonio D'Errico Emilio Riccardi Annachiara Pagano Michela Svaluto Moreolo Josep M. Fabrega Danish Rafique Antonio Napoli Silvano Frigerio Emilio Hugues-Salas Georgios Zervas Markus Nölle Johannes Karl Fischer Andrew Lord Juan Pedro Fernández-Palacios Gimenez Next generation sliceable bandwidth variable transponders. 163-171 2015 53 IEEE Commun. Mag. 2 https://doi.org/10.1109/MCOM.2015.7045405 db/journals/cm/cm53.html#SamboCDRPMFRNFH15

Pablo Wilke Berenguer Talha Rahman Antonio Napoli Markus Nolle Colja Schubert Johannes Karl Fischer Nonlinear digital pre-distortion of transmitter components. 1-3 2015 ECOC https://doi.org/10.1109/ECOC.2015.7341898 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q57600476 conf/ecoc/2015 db/conf/ecoc/ecoc2015.html#BerenguerRNNSF15 Thomas Richter 0004 Carsten Schmidt-Langhorst Robert Elschner Lutz Molle Saleem Alreesh Tomoyuki Kato Takahito Tanimura Shigeki Watanabe Johannes Karl Fischer Colja Schubert Distributed 1-Tb/s all-optical aggregation capacity in 125-GHz optical bandwidth by frequency conversion in fiber. 1-3 2015 ECOC https://doi.org/10.1109/ECOC.2015.7341684 conf/ecoc/2015 db/conf/ecoc/ecoc2015.html#RichterSEMAKTWF15 Patricia Layec Annachiara Dupas Markus Nölle Johannes Karl Fischer Colja Schubert Josep M. Fabrega Michela Svaluto Moreolo Nicola Sambo Gianluca Meloni Francesco Fresi Antonio Napoli Danish Rafique Marc Bohn Antonio D'Errico Talha Rahman Emilio Hugues-Salas Yan Yan 0019 Shuangyi Yan Georgios Zervas Dimitra Simeonidou Alexandros A. Stavdas Chris Matrakidis Theofanis Orphanoudakis IDEALIST data plane solutions for elastic optical networks. 355-359 2015 EuCNC https://doi.org/10.1109/EuCNC.2015.7194098 conf/eucnc/2015 db/conf/eucnc/eucnc2015.html#LayecDNFSFMSMFN15 Kai Habel Luz Fernandez del Rosal Stefan Weide Jonas Hilt Volker Jungnickel Robert Elschner Colja Schubert Felix Frey Johannes Karl Fischer Ronald Freund 5 Gbit/s real-time processing using π/4-shift DQPSK for bidirectional radio-over-fibre system. 1-4 2015 ICTON https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTON.2015.7193479 conf/icton/2015 db/conf/icton/icton2015.html#HabelRWHJESFFF15 Tobias A. Eriksson Saleem Alreesh Carsten Schmidt-Langhorst Felix Frey Pablo Wilke Berenguer Colja Schubert Johannes K. Fischer Peter A. Andrekson Magnus Karlsson 0001 Erik Agrell Experimental investigation of a four-dimensional 256-ary lattice-based modulation format. 1-3 2015 OFC https://doi.org/10.1364/OFC.2015.W4K.3 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q57600470 conf/ofc/2015 db/conf/ofc/ofc2015.html#ErikssonASFBSFA15 Markus Nolle Felix Frey Robert Elschner Carsten Schmidt-Langhorst Johannes K. Fischer Colja Schubert Investigation of CAZAC sequences for data-aided channel estimation considering nonlinear optical transmission. 1-3 2015 OFC https://doi.org/10.1364/OFC.2015.Th3G.2 conf/ofc/2015 db/conf/ofc/ofc2015.html#NolleFESFS15 Zifeng Wu Johannes Karl Fischer Berthold Lankl Experimental investigation of polar code performance for coherent UDWDM PONs. 1-3 2015 OFC https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7121708 conf/ofc/2015 db/conf/ofc/ofc2015.html#WuFL15 Johannes Karl Fischer Carsten Schmidt-Langhorst Saleem Alreesh Robert Elschner Felix Frey Pablo Wilke Berenguer Lutz Molle Markus Nolle Colja Schubert Transmission of 512SP-QAM Nyquist-WDM signals. 1-3 2014 ECOC https://doi.org/10.1109/ECOC.2014.6964093 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q57600482 conf/ecoc/2014 db/conf/ecoc/ecoc2014.html#FischerSAEFBMNS14 Felix Frey Robert Elschner Christoph Kottke Colja Schubert Johannes K. Fischer Efficient real-time implementation of a channelizer filter with a weighted overlap-add approach. 1-3 2014 ECOC https://doi.org/10.1109/ECOC.2014.6964101 conf/ecoc/2014 db/conf/ecoc/ecoc2014.html#FreyEKSF14 Antonio Napoli Markus Nölle Danish Rafique Johannes Karl Fischer Bernhard Spinnler Talha Rahman Mahdi M. Mezghanni Marc Bohn On the next generation bandwidth variable transponders for future flexible optical systems. 1-5 2014 EuCNC https://doi.org/10.1109/EuCNC.2014.6882671 conf/eucnc/2014 db/conf/eucnc/eucnc2014.html#NapoliNRFSRMB14 Marc Bohn Antonio Napoli Antonio D'Errico Giuseppe Ferraris Matthias Gunkel Felipe Jiménez 0001 Juan Pedro Fernández-Palacios Patricia Layec George Zervas Norberto Amaya Gonzalez Dimitra Simeonidou Johannes Karl Fischer Markus Nölle Colja Schubert Nicola Sambo Filippo Cugini Piero Castoldi Michela Svaluto Moreolo Josep M. Fabrega Chigo Okonkwo Huug de Waardt Elastic optical networks: The vision of the ICT project IDEALIST. 1-9 2013 Future Network & Mobile Summit https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6633583/ conf/fnms/2013 db/conf/fnms/fnms2013.html#BohnNDFGJFLZGSFNSSCCMFOW13 Takahito Tanimura Saleem Alreesh Johannes Karl Fischer Carsten Schmidt-Langhorst Felix Frey Christian Meuer Robert Elschner Lutz Molle Colja Schubert Nonlinear transmission of 6PolSK-QPSK signals using coded modulation and digital back propagation. 1-3 2013 OFC/NFOEC https://doi.org/10.1364/OFC.2013.OTu3B.3 conf/ofc/2013 db/conf/ofc/ofc2013.html#TanimuraAFSFMEM13 Johannes Karl Fischer Markus Nölle Lutz Molle Carsten Schmidt-Langhorst Jonas Hilt Reinhold Ludwig Colja Schubert Beyond 100G - high-capacity transport technologies for next generation optical core networks. 1-9 2012 Future Network & Mobile Summit https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6294249/ conf/fnms/2012 db/conf/fnms/fnms2012.html#FischerNMSHLS12 Mahtab Aghaeipour Erik Agrell Kazuhiko Aikawa Alessandro Aimone Kouichi Akahane Waleed Akbar Hassan Akbari Saleem Alreesh Norberto AmayaNorberto Amaya Gonzalez Peter A. Andrekson Bogdan AndrusBogdan-Mihai Andrus Aymeric Arnould Achim Autenrieth Yoshinari Awaji Moritz Baier Mihail Balanici Wanda Baltzer Masoud Barakatain Osman Tugay Basaran Thomas Bauschert Pablo Wilke Berenguer Geronimo Bergk R. Bian Steffen Biehs Marc Bohn Fabien Boitier Ayoub Bouchedoub Claude Le Bouëtté Nicolas Braig-Christophersen Ítalo Brasileiro Tino Brast Ralf-Peter Braun Marcus Brunner Jose Cananao Lourdes Luque Canto Mattia Cantono Ramon Casellas Piero Castoldi Mohit Chamania Moritz Chemnitz Paul Chojecki Jaume Comellas Nelson Costa Filippo Cugini Yaonian Cui Vittorio Curri Abhishek Dandekar Kallyan Das Antonio D'Errico Óscar González de Dios Thomas Dippon Philippe Doare Annika Dochhan Falko Dressler André C. Drummond Annachiara Dupas Emre Durmaz António Eira Jörg-Peter Elbers Robert Elschner Robert Emmerich Michael Enrico Tobias A. Eriksson M. Sezer ErkilincM. Sezer Erkilinç Josep M. FabregaJosep M. FàbregaJosep Maria Fabrega E. Fernandez Alessio Ferrari 0002 Giuseppe Ferraris Olivier Ferveur Gerrit Fiol Robert F. H. Fischer Wladek Forysiak Max Franke 0001 Francesco Fresi Ronald Freund Felix Frey Silvano Frigerio Hideaki Furukawa Lídia Galdino Marc Geitz Lluis Gifre Andrea Di Giglio Alessio Giorgetti P. Gonzalez Pol González Helmut Grießer Norbert Grote Marko Gruner Matthias Gunkel Kai Habel Nazila Hashemi Hendrik Haße Peter Hellwig David Hillerkuss Jonas Hilt Yusuke Hirota V. Hohns Jörg Honecker Joseph Hopfmüller Takeshi Hoshida Emilio Hugues-Salas Guillermo von Hünefeld Aydin Jafari Ming Jiang Felipe Jiménez 0001 Jialiang Jin Admela Jukan Juan del Junco Volker Jungnickel Magnus Karlsson 0001 Vignesh Karunakaran Tomoyuki Kato Mahdi Kaveh Md Mahasin Khan Naveed Ali Kaim Khani Dietmar Kissinger Gerhard Kleinpeter Christoph Kottke Sepideh Mohammadi Kouhini Sebastian Kühl Berthold Lankl Patricia Layec Piotr Lechowicz Max Christian Lemme Bodo Lent Hongyu Li Yi Lin Xiang Liu Iria Garcia Lopez Sergio López-Buedo Andrew Lord Reinhold Ludwig Ruben S. Luis Xiao Ma Setareh Maghsudi Carlos Manso Chris Matrakidis Gianluca Meloni Christian Meuer Mahdi M. Mezghanni Lorenzo Miretti Angela Mitrovska Hakim Mkinsi Abdelrahmane Moawad Philomena Moek Martin MöhrleMartin Moehrle Lutz Molle Paolo Monti 0001 Francisco Javier Moreno Francisco-Javier Moreno-Muro Michela Svaluto Moreolo Roberto Morro Juan L. Moreno Morrone Jasper Müller Raul Muñoz 0001 Abubakar Siddique Muqaddas Antonio Napoli Carlos Natalino David T. Neilson Reza Nejabati Markus NölleMarkus Nolle Felix Immanuel Oertel Pamir Oezsuna Chigo Okonkwo Theofanis Orphanoudakis Stephan Pachnicke Annachiara Pagano Juan P. Fernández PalaciosJuan Pedro Fernández-PalaciosJuan Pedro Fernández-Palacios Gimenez Francesco Paolucci Sai Kireet Patri Pablo Pavón-MariñoPablo Pavón 0001 Jose-Juan Pedreno-ManresaJosé Juan Pedreño Manresa João Pedro 0001 Luca Pesando Johannes Pfeiffer Cao Vien Phung Erwan Pincemin Pierluigi Poggiolini Luca Potì David Przewozny Haydar Qarawlus Georg Rademacher Danish Rafique Talha Rahman Stephan Rasp Ronald Romero Reyes Emilio Riccardi André Richter Thomas Richter 0004 Pedro Rito Gregor Ronniger Gabriele Di Rosa Luz Fernandez del Rosal Marcel Fernandez Rosas Marc Ruiz 0001 Isaac Sackey Pooyan Safari Nicola Sambo C. Santos Caio Santos Silviu Adrian Sasu Martin Schell Stefan Schmid 0001 Carsten Schmidt-Langhorst Colja Schubert Dominic Schulz Julius Schulz-Zander Enes Seker Matheus Ribeiro Sena Andrea Sgambelluri Behnam Shariati Dimitra Simeonidou Francisco M. Soares Bernd Sommerkorn-Krombholz Bernhard Spinnler David Stahl Slawomir Stanczak Alexandros A. Stavdas Andreas G. Steffan Sebastian Stern Stephan Suckow Thomas Szyrkowiec Takahito Tanimura Rijil Thomas Ehsan Tohidi Ahmet Cagri Ulusoy Zoran Utkovski L. Velasco Luis Velasco 0001 Jorge E. López de Vergara Axel Vick Ricard Vilalta F. Javier Vilchez Huug de Waardt Shigeki Watanabe Stefan Weide Zifeng Wu Sugang Xu Shuangyi Yan Yan Yan 0019 Yuki Yoshida 0001 Iulisloi Zacarias H. Zaid Hussein Zaid Georgios ZervasGeorge Zervas Zhennan Zheng Jun Zhou