Sanwal Zeb
Doctoral Candidate 4
Politecnico Di Torino
Short Bio: Sanwal earned his Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering from the National University of Sciences & Technology (NUST) in 2018, with a thesis on “Energy Minimization by Optimal Data Centre Placement in Elastic Optical Networks.” Over the past five years, he has gained extensive experience in network planning, design, and research. At China Mobile Pakistan (CMPaK), a leading telecom operator, he worked as a Senior Officer Enterprise Solutions, overseeing WDM network planning and design. He later joined the CONNECT Centre Dublin, where he explored slicing, virtualization and monitoring of converged fixed/mobile and access/metro networks. Also, he worked on vDBA Dynamic Resource Scheduling and Allocation in PONs, Energy Efficiency in WDM Networks & software Defined Optical Networks
Research Topic: Digital twin of physical layer for short-reach scenarios in metro/access/DCI networks
Project Summary: Develop a digital twin of physical layer to enable intelligent operation of converged metro-access networks. It integrates multi-carrier coherent transceiver modeling, QoT estimation, and AI/LLM-driven control to support resource allocation, failure detection and recovery. Evaluation of P2P and P2MP coherent architectures, identifying scalable and cost-efficient strategies for next-generation 6G X-haul.
| Host Institution: | Politecnico di Torino (POLITO) Physical Layer Aware NETworking (PLANET) https://planet.polito.it/home/ |
| Supervisors: | Prof Vittorio Curri |
| Secondments planned: | Nokia Germany (Munich) Nokia Portugal (Lisbon) |
| PhD Enrolment Institution: | Politecnico di Torino (POLITO) |
| Industrial Mentor: | Dr Antonio Napoli, Dr Joao Pedro |
- A. Ali et al., "Optimizing RAN X-Haul Performance Through Targeted Hollow-Core Fiber Deployment in Converged Metro-Access Networks," 2025 International Conference on Software, Telecommunications and Computer Networks (SoftCOM), Split, Croatia, 2025, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.23919/SoftCOM66362.2025.11197410. Zenodo OA: https://zenodo.org/records/17988894
- A. Ali et al., "Evaluating Metro-Access Optical Networks as-a-Service for Flexible RAN X-haul," 2025 IEEE Conference on Standards for Communications and Networking (CSCN), Bologna, Italy, 2025, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/CSCN67557.2025.11230596. Zenodo OA: https://zenodo.org/records/17989323
The secondment programme for Sanwal Zeb includes two visits, each lasting 5 months, to the Nokia Germany (Munich) and Nokia Portugal (Lisbon) teams in 2026. Further details on the objectives, progress, and outcomes of the secondments will be made available in due course.