News 2025

VDE ITG Conference on Photonic Networks 2025:

May 20th to 21st: Mr. Cristian Bermudez-Serna and Ms. Ritanshi Agarwal, participated in the Fachtagung Photonische Netzte 2025, hosted by Fraunhofer HHI in Berlin. In this event, Mr. Bermudez-Serna gave a presentation titled “Dependability Analysis Between Optical Access and Power Grid Networks”, and Ms. Agarwal presented a poster titled “Towards Unbalanced Splitter Deployment in Passive Optical Networks”.
Both works received great feedback, accomplishing the objective of the conference. We thank Fraunhofer HHI, for the organization and the hosting of the event.

ONDM 2025 Conference:

May 6th to 9th, 2025: Prof. C. Mas Machuca, Dr. A. Sharma and Ms. R. Agarwal, participated at the ONDM conference in Pisa, Italy. The team organized the “Connectivity Spectrum: Women driving research and innovation in optical networks” workshop and gave two technical presentations: “Exploring Energy-Efficient PON Architectures for Rural Scenarios” (Ms. Agarwal); and “Routing, Band, Modulation and Spectrum Assignment with Dedicated Protection in Multiband-Elastic Optical Networks” (Dr. Sharma). Last but not least, Prof. C, Mas Machuca announced ONDM 2026, which will be hosted next year at the Universität of the Bundeswehr München.
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Best Paper Award ONDM 2025:

May 9th, 2025: Dr. Anjali Sharma, post-doctoral student of the Communications Network Chair (COMNET), received the Best Paper Award for the paper “Routing, Band, Modulation, and Spectrum Assignment with Dedicated Protection in Multiband-Elastic Optical Networks”. This work presented different protection schemes, under a multi-band scenario, and proved which type was more effective in different Core network topologies.

IEEE Women in Engineering ONDM 2025:

May 8th, 2025: Prof. C. Mas Machuca and Dr. A. Sharma organized the workshop “Connectivity Spectrum: Women driving research and innovation in optical networks” at ONDM 2025. The event counted with invited speakers, who shared their remarkable experiences, achievements, their outlook on equality, and some thought-provoking ideas in the workshop. Audience participated in a poll curated around to discover their understanding on the topic. The workshop was followed by a coffee break sponsored by IEEE Women in Engineering Germany section.

OFC Conference:

March 30th to April 3rd, 2025: Dr. Anjali Sharma and Ms. Ritanshi Agarwal, members of the Communications Network Chair (COMNET), participated at the OFC conference, hosted in San Francisco, California, USA. This conference brings together world-wide experts in business and academia to share and discuss on new findings and technologies in Optical Fiber Communications.
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