Emerging Optical Network Technologies: Architectures, Protocols and Performance

✍ Scribed by Linda Cline, Christian Maciocco, Manav Mishra (auth.), Krishna M. Sivalingam, Suresh Subramaniam (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 442
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Optical networks have moved from laboratory settings and theoretical research to real-world deployment and service-oriented explorations. New technologies such as Ethernet PON, traffic grooming, regional and metropolitan network architectures and optical packet switching are being explored, and the landscape is continuously and rapidly evolving. Some of the important issues involving these new technologies involve the architectural, protocol, and performance related issues. This book addresses many of these issues and presents a birds eye view of some of the more promising technologies. Researchers and those pursuing advanced degrees in this field will be able to see where progress is being made and new technologies are emerging.

Emerging Optical Network Technologies: Architectures, Protocols and Performance provides state-of-the-art material written by the most prominent professionals in their respective areas.

✦ Table of Contents

Enabling Architectures for Next Generation Optical Networks....Pages 3-22
Hybrid Hierarchical Optical Networks....Pages 23-49
Advances in Passive Optical Networks (PONS)....Pages 51-73
Regional-Metro Optical Networks....Pages 75-108
Optical Packet Switching....Pages 111-127
Waveband Switching: A New Frontier in Optical WDM Networks....Pages 129-153
Optical Burst Switching: Quality of Service, Multicast, and Operation and Maintenance....Pages 155-176
GMPLS-Based Exchange Points: Architecture and Functionality....Pages 179-192
The GMPLS Control Plane Architecture for Optical Networks....Pages 193-218
Operational Aspects of Mesh Networking in WDM Optical Networks....Pages 219-241
Traffic Grooming in WDM Networks....Pages 245-264
A Practical and Cost-Effective Approach to Efficient Traffic Grooming in WDM Mesh Networks....Pages 265-294
A Survey of Survivability Techniques for Optical WDM Networks....Pages 297-331
Tradeoffs and Comparison of Restoration Strategies in Optical WDM Networks....Pages 333-355
Facilitating Service Level Agreements with Restoration Speed Requirements....Pages 357-377
Failure Location in WDM Networks....Pages 379-399
A Multi-Layer Switched GMPLS Optical Network....Pages 403-421
HORNET: A Packet Switched WDM Metropolitan Network....Pages 423-447

✦ Subjects

Computer Communication Networks;Communications Engineering, Networks;Optics, Optoelectronics, Plasmonics and Optical Devices;Microwaves, RF and Optical Engineering;Computer Systems Organization and Communication Networks