Next Generation Optical Network Design and Modelling

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. MAC Protocols

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. A QoS-Sensitive MAC for Slotted WDM Metropolitan Rings

      • J. D. Angelopolous, N. Leligou, H. Linardakis, A. Stavdas

      Pages 3-15

   3. An Analytical Model for a Slotted WDM Metro Ring with A-Posteriori Access

      • Kemal Bengi

      Pages 17-34

   4. A Preemptable Slotted Access Protocol to Transport Variable Size Packets in All-Optical Ring Lans/Mans

      • Marcos Rogério Salvador, Sonia Heemstra de Groot, Diptish Dey

      Pages 35-49

   5. Comparison of Single-Hop and Multihop AWG Based WDM Networks

      • Hagen Woesner, Martin Maier, Adam Wolisz

      Pages 51-65

3. Burst Switching

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 67-67

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   2. Segmented Burst Switching: Enhancement of Optical Burst Switching to Decrease Loss Rate and Support Quality of Service

      • Abdelilah Maach, Gregor von Bochmann

      Pages 69-84

   3. Provision of End-to-End Delay Guarantees in Wavelength-Routed Optical Burst-Switched Networks

      • Ignacio de Miguel, Eugene Kozlovski, Polina Bayvel

      Pages 85-100

   4. QoS Performance of WR-OBS Network Architecture with Request Scheduling

      • Eugene Kozlovski, Polina Bayvel

      Pages 101-116

   5. Dimensioning of FDL Buffers for Optical Burst Switching Nodes

      • Christoph M. Gauger

      Pages 117-132

4. Italian Projects on Optical Networks

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 133-133

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   2. Optical Packet Switching of IP Traffic

      • Stefano Bregni, Giacomo Guerra, Achille Pattavina

      Pages 135-149

   3. Dynamic DWDM Exploitation in Connection-Oriented Optical Packet Switches

      • Franco Callegati, Walter Cerroni, Carla Raffaelli, Paolo Zaffoni

      Pages 151-166

   4. Variable-Size Packets in Slotted WDM Ring Networks

      • Andrea Bianco, Massimiliano Bonsignori, Emilio Leonardi, Fabio Neri

      Pages 167-182

   5. Ringo: A Demonstrator of WDM Optical Packet Network on a Ring Topology

      • Andrea Carena, Valter Ferrero, Roberto Gaudino, Vito De Feo, Fabio Neri, Pierluigi Poggiolini

      Pages 183-197

   6. A Wavelength Recognizing Switching Architecture for Omega Interconnection Networks

      • Andrea Borella, Giovanni Cancellieri, Pietro Prosperi

      Pages 199-209

5. Switch Architecture

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 211-211

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   2. On the Performance of Optical Flow Routers Employing Wavelength Conversion

      • J. J. He, D. Simeonidou

      Pages 213-229

   3. Prioritized Buffer Management in Photonic Packet Switches for Diffserv Assured Forwarding

      • Hiroaki Harai, Masayuki Murata

      Pages 231-245

Optical networks are leaving the labs and becoming a reality. Despite the current crisis of the telecom industry, our everyday life increasingly depends on communication networks for information exchange, medicine, education, data transfer, commerce, and many other endeavours. High capacity links are required by the large futemet traffic demand, and optical networks remain one of the most promising technologies for meeting these needs. WDM systems are today widely deployed, thanks to low-cost at extreme data rates and high reliability of optical components, such as optical amplifiers and fixed/tunable filters and transceivers. Access and metropolitan area networks are increasingly based on optical technologies to overcome the electronic bottleneck at the network edge. Traditional multi-layer architectures, such as the widely deployed IP/ATM/SDH protocol stack, are increasingly based on WDM transport; further efforts are sought to move at the optical layer more of the functionalities available today in higher protocol layers. New components and subsystems for very high speed optical networks offer new design opportunities to network operators and designers. The trends towards dynamically configurable all-optical network infrastructures open up a wide range of new network engineering and design choices, which must face issues such as interoperability and unified control and management.

• ATM
• Metropolitan Area Network
• Protection
• QoS
• Quality of Service
• Quality of Service (QoS)
• Segment
• Switch
• Switching
• Transceiver
• filter
• router
• routing

• Dipartimento di Elettronica, Politecnico di Torino, Italy

  Andrea Bianco, Fabio Neri

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