Overview
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Keyao Zhu
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Bion Technologies, Inc., USA
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Hongyue Zhu
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University of California, Davis
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Biswanath Mukherjee
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University of California, Davis
- Shows how to build cost-effective mesh optical networks
- Consolidates a number of new techniques, algorithms, and protocols for traffic grooming
- Covers design and operation of actual networks
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
Pages i-xxiii
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Back Matter
Pages 167-174
About this book
Optical networks based on wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) tech nology offer the promise to satisfy the bandwidth requirements of the Inter net infrastructure, and provide a scalable solution to support the bandwidth needs of future applications in the local and wide areas. In a waveleng- routed network, an optical channel, referred to as a lightpath, is set up between two network nodes for communication. Using WDM technology, an optical fiber link can support multiple non-overlapping wavelength channels, each of which can be operated at the data rate of 10 Gbps or 40 Gbps today. On the other hand, only a fraction of customers are expected to have a need for such a high bandwidth. Due to the large cost of the optical backbone infrastruc ture and enormous WDM channel capacity, connection requests with diverse low-speed bandwidth requirements need to be efficiently groomed onto hi- capacity wavelength channels. This book investigates the optimized design, provisioning, and performance analysis of traffic-groomable WDM networks, and proposes and evaluates new WDM network architectures. Organization of the Book Significant amount of research effort has been devoted to traffic grooming in SONET/WDM ring networks since the current telecom networks are mainly deployed in the form of ring topologies or interconnected rings. As the long-haul backbone networks are evolving to irregular mesh topologies, traffic grooming in optical WDM mesh networks becomes an extremely important and practical research topic for both industry and academia.
About the authors
Prof. Mukherjee is a leading & highly respected researcher in the field. He has published a successful optical networking textbook with McGraw-Hill and has published extensively in IEEE Transactions and other related publications. He is also Editor for the Springer series on Optical Networks.
