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. 13.4% 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%
- 4.2k per year above
- Top-10% rate
- 13.4% share of its works in the world top 10%
- Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
- -19% the tick is no change
Which countries lead Advanced Optical Network Technologies research?
By volume, China and India publish the most (967 and 324 works in 2022–2025).
By volume, 2022–2025
- 1 China 967 works
- 2 India 324 works
- 3 United States 292 works
- 4 Japan 250 works
- 5 Italy 122 works
- 6 Germany 122 works
- 7 Brazil 120 works
- 8 Spain 107 works
- 9 France 95 works
- 10 United Kingdom 88 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.
Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.
Which institutions lead Advanced Optical Network Technologies research?
By volume in 2022–2025, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications publishes the most Advanced Optical Network Technologies research, followed by NTT (Japan) and Centre Tecnologic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya.
By volume, 2022–2025
- 1 Beijing University of Posts and TelecommunicationsChina 123 works
- 2 NTT (Japan)Japan 56 works
- 3 Centre Tecnologic de Telecomunicacions de CatalunyaSpain 31 works
- 4 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 31 works
- 5 Soochow UniversityChina 30 works
- 6 State Key Laboratory of Information Photonics and Optical Communications?? 21 works
- 7 Politecnico di TorinoItaly 20 works
- 8 Universitat Politècnica de CatalunyaSpain 20 works
- 9 Politecnico di MilanoItaly 19 works
- 10 Tsinghua UniversityChina 18 works
Who are the leading researchers in Advanced Optical Network Technologies?
The most-cited researchers publishing on Advanced Optical Network Technologies include Ian F. Akyildiz, Mohamed‐Slim Alouini and Hari Balakrishnan.
- 1 Ian F. Akyildiz United States 8.2k citations
- 2 Mohamed‐Slim Alouini Saudi Arabia 5.9k citations
- 3 Hari Balakrishnan United States 5.5k citations
- 4 Xuemin Shen Canada 5.1k citations
- 5 Mohsen Guizani Qatar 3.7k citations
Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.
Where is Advanced Optical Network Technologies research done?
The largest centres of Advanced Optical Network Technologies research in 2022–2025 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, 2022–2025
Where it is the local speciality
- Beijing37.2 works27×
Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Advanced Optical Network Technologies than the world average.
Where is the best place to study Advanced Optical Network Technologies?
Among universities, judged by research, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications and Universidad Carlos III de Madrid 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.
One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.
| # | University | Score | Top 10% | Specialisation | Works | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Beijing University of Posts and TelecommunicationsChina | 63.3 | 8.0% | 61.0× | 123 | -5.3% |
| 2 | Nanjing University of Posts and TelecommunicationsChina | 56.0 | 16.8% | 7.3× | 10 | +39.1% |
| 3 | Universidad Carlos III de MadridSpain | 55.9 | 10.2% | 13.8× | 10 | +47.0% |
| 4 | Budapest University of Technology and EconomicsHungary | 53.1 | 13.7% | 10.9× | 8 | -45.4% |
| 5 | Politecnico di MilanoItaly | 50.9 | 9.7% | 8.4× | 19 | -18.6% |
| 6 | Eindhoven University of TechnologyNetherlands | 50.5 | 7.5% | 11.3× | 13 | -26.6% |
| 7 | Politecnico di TorinoItaly | 50.2 | 5.1% | 13.7× | 20 | +15.4% |
| 8 | Chalmers University of TechnologySweden | 50.1 | 5.1% | 11.2× | 9 | +57.3% |
| 9 | Universitat Politècnica de CatalunyaSpain | 48.2 | 3.6% | 19.3× | 20 | -5.0% |
| 10 | Indian Institute of Technology KanpurIndia | 45.5 | 5.7% | 9.5× | 10 | +75.6% |
Universities only. Score blends excellence (30%), specialisation (25%), size (20%), growth (15%) and international reach (10%), 2015–2022; growth compares 2010–14 with 2015–19.
Is Advanced Optical Network Technologies research growing?
Output in 2018–2022 was 19% lower than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2002.
The same series as a ribbon — one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.
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.