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Advanced Optical Network Technologies

Advanced Optical Network Technologies is a research topic within Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Science Explorer counts 31k research works in it since 1950. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on optical communication networks, with an emphasis on elastic optical networks, energy efficiency, wavelength assignment, traffic grooming, survivability, spectrum allocation, green networking, network resilience, and packet switching.

  • Optical Networks
  • Elastic Optical Networks
  • Energy Efficiency
  • Wavelength Assignment
  • Traffic Grooming
  • Survivability
  • Spectrum Allocation
  • Green Networking
  • Network Resilience
  • Packet Switching
Research works
31k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
3.1k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-7%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
40% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Advanced Optical Network Technologies

Which countries lead Advanced Optical Network Technologies research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (1.1k and 374 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 1.1k works
  2. 2 India 374 works
  3. 3 United States 341 works
  4. 4 Japan 270 works
  5. 5 Germany 143 works
  6. 6 Brazil 135 works
  7. 7 Italy 135 works
  8. 8 Spain 120 works
  9. 9 France 103 works
  10. 10 United Kingdom 98 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

China: 39.7%India: 13.1%United States: 12.0%Japan: 9.5%6 others listed: 25.7%40%largest
China1,133 · 39.7%India374 · 13.1%United States341 · 12.0%Japan270 · 9.5%6 others listed733 · 25.7%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Advanced Optical Network Technologies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications publishes the most Advanced Optical Network Technologies research, followed by NTT (Japan) and Nokia (Finland).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Beijing University of Posts and TelecommunicationsChina 158 works
  2. 2 NTT (Japan)Japan 61 works
  3. 3 Nokia (Finland)Finland 37 works
  4. 4 CERCA InstitutionSpain 37 works
  5. 5 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 36 works
  6. 6 Soochow UniversityChina 32 works
  7. 7 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 24 works
  8. 8 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 23 works
  9. 9 State Grid Corporation of China (China)China 23 works
  10. 10 Politecnico di TorinoItaly 22 works

Who are the leading researchers in Advanced Optical Network Technologies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Advanced Optical Network Technologies include Kai You Wang, Edward Hartley Sargent and H. Vincent Poor.

  1. 1 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  2. 2 Edward Hartley Sargent Canada 185k citations
  3. 3 H. Vincent Poor United States 165k citations
  4. 4 Daron Acemoğlu United States 164k citations
  5. 5 Han Zhang China 161k citations
  6. 6 Stephen Boyd United States 142k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Advanced Optical Network Technologies?

The most cited paper in Advanced Optical Network Technologies is "Random early detection gateways for congestion avoidance" (Sally Floyd, Van L. Jacobson, 1993), with 6,305 citations. Next come "Software-Defined Networking: A Comprehensive Survey" (5,013) and "Finding the K Shortest Loopless Paths in a Network" (2,628).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Random early detection gateways for congestion avoidance Sally Floyd, Van L. Jacobson · IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking 1993 6,305
2 Software-Defined Networking: A Comprehensive Survey Diego Kreutz, Fernando M. V. Ramos, Paulo Esteves Veríssimo et al. · Proceedings of the IEEE Open access 19 Dec 2014 5,013
3 Finding the K Shortest Loopless Paths in a Network Jin Y. Yen · Management Science Jul 1971 2,628
4 CUBIC Sangtae Ha, Injong Rhee, Lisong Xu · ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review Jul 2008 2,286
5 Modeling TCP throughput Jitendra Padhye, Victor Firoiu, Don Towsley et al. Conference paper Oct 1998 2,112
All 98 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Advanced Optical Network Technologies research done?

The largest centres of Advanced Optical Network Technologies research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Tokyo (Japan), Shanghai (China) and Barcelona (Spain). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Beijing.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 347 works
  2. 2 TokyoJapan 142 works
  3. 3 ShanghaiChina 88 works
  4. 4 BarcelonaSpain 62 works
  5. 5 NanjingChina 61 works
  6. 6 GuangzhouChina 55 works
  7. 7 ShenzhenChina 51 works
  8. 8 Xi'anChina 48 works
  9. 9 MunichGermany 47 works
  10. 10 WuhanChina 43 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Beijing38.8 works26×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Advanced Optical Network Technologies than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Advanced Optical Network Technologies?

Among universities, judged by research, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Fudan University and Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%10%20%30%mean 15.91%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Fudan UniversityUniversidad Carlos I…Politecnico di MilanoBeijing University o…
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1Universidad Carlos III de MadridSpain 61.519.2%14.3×11 +17.7%
2Fudan UniversityChina 60.624.7%2.4×13 +72.4%
3Beijing University of Posts and TelecommunicationsChina 57.69.4%74.2×158 +1.2%
4Politecnico di MilanoItaly 56.617.6%8.8×21 -14.8%
5Politecnico di TorinoItaly 53.512.7%14.7×22 -14.0%
6University of Science and Technology of ChinaChina 53.013.4%4.8×19 -40.6%
7Kyoto UniversityJapan 51.616.4%5.8×15 +26.5%
8Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityChina 51.516.7%2.8×8 +72.3%
9Soochow UniversityChina 51.48.5%10.1×32 +77.5%
10Southeast UniversityChina 50.120.5%2.9×14 +50.7%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Advanced Optical Network Technologies, country by country

Is Advanced Optical Network Technologies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 7% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2002.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Advanced Optical Network Technologies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.015% in 2024.

still counting0.050%0.10%0.15%Advanced Optical Network Technologies0.017% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Advanced Optical Network Technologies over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Advanced Optical Network Technologies10.0% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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