Optical WDM Networks Principles and Practice /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Sivalingam, Krishna M. (Editor), Subramaniam, Suresh. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2002.
• Series: The International Series in Engineering and Computer Science, 554
• Subjects: Computer science.; Computer communication systems.; Electrical engineering.; Materials science.; Computer Science.; Computer Communication Networks.; Communications Engineering, Networks.; Electrical Engineering.; Characterization and Evaluation of Materials.
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Optical WDM networking technology is spearheading a bandwidth revolution in the networking infrastructure being developed for the next generation Internet. Rapid advances in optical components have enabled the transition from point-to-point WDM links to all-optical networking. Optical WDM Networks:...

Table of Contents:

• Survey of State-of-the-art
• Optical Network Components
• Fiber, Lasers, Receivers, and Amplifiers
• Switches, Wavelength Routers, and Wavelength Converters
• Wavelength Routing Networks
• Design of Logical Topologies for Wavelength Routed Networks
• A Taxonomy of Switching Techniques
• WDM Networks with Limited or no Wavelength Conversion for Worst Case Traffic
• Broadcast Star Networks
• MAC Protocols for WDM Networks Ớ Survey and Summary
• Scheduling Algorithms for Unicast, Multicast, and Broadcast
• Design and Analysis of a Media Access Protocol for Star Coupled WDM Networks with TT-TR Architecture
• A Multicasting Protocol for Multichannel Local Optical Networks
• Performance Evaluation
• Blocking Performance of Wavelength-routing Networks
• Dynamic Wavelength Routing Techniques and their Performance Analyses
• Miscellaneous Topics
• Optical Access Networks for the Next Generation Internet
• Optical Network Management
• Hitless Switching in a Data-centric WDM Optical Network
• Optical WDM Networks: Future Vision.