Intelligent Optical Network with AI and Blockchain

The inevitable trend to develop 5G and beyond puts higher requirements on the intelligence of optical networks. In the operation of an optical network, many processes can take advantage of emerging technologies for effective optimization, such as resource allocation, fault operation, traffic classification and prediction and also security convincement.Artificial intelligence (AI) is a method which establishes digital logical topologies following the structure of biological neural network to reproduce its analysis and learning process. Besides, blockchain is also a secure, decentralized architecture that supports the trustworthiness of distributed communications and storage. These two technologies are considered to have great potential in optimizing the intelligent optical network in different aspects.In this paper, we will demonstrate some possible approaches of how AI and blockchain can separately be integrated with optical network to improve its performance.