Notice of Violation of IEEE Publication Principles: All-optical networks: Security issues analysis

Notice of Violation of IEEE Publication Principles

“All-Optical Networks: Security Issues Analysis,”
by Amor Lazzez,
in the IEEE/OSA Journal of Optical Commununications and Networking, Vol. 7, No. 3, March, 2015, pp. 136-145

After careful and considered review of the content and authorship of this paper by a duly constituted expert committee from both the IEEE Communications Society and the Optical Society of America, this paper has been found to be in violation of IEEE’s Publication Principles.

It came to the attention of the Optical Society and IEEE Communications Society that this article should not have been submitted owing to its substantial replication, without appropriate attribution of significant elements found in the previously published paper:

"Physical-layer Attacks in All-optical WDM Networks",
by M. Furdek and N. Skorin-Kapov,
in the Proceedings of the 34th International Convention on Information and Communication Technology, Electronics and Microelectronics (MIPRO), May 2011, pp 446-451


All-optical networks (AONs) are emerging as a promising technology for future telecommunication and data networks. AONs provide huge transmission capacities and are mainly characterized by their transparency to the transmitted traffic. The characteristics of AONs are desirable in many respects, but they give rise to a new set of challenging issues in terms of network security that do not exist in traditional communication networks. The aim of this paper is to present a deep analysis of the security issues of AONs that distinguish them from traditional communication networks. In particular, we focus on the physical security aspect that differs significantly from that in electro-optic and electronic networks and that directly affects the physical infrastructure of AONs. The paper provides an analysis of the infrastructure vulnerabilities of AONs and shows how they can be exploited to perform attacks to the proper functioning of the network. Furthermore, it describes a set of scenarios that may be used to perform a service disruption or a tapping attack on an AON. Finally, it investigates the main challenging issues facing the efficient management of security attacks in AONs and presents a brief overview of the main proposed schemes for attack management in AONs.