Traffic grooming and wavelength conversion in optical networks

Abstract

xii CHAPTER 1. Optical Networking A Gentle Introduction 1 1.1 Optical Networks The story thus far 1 1.2 First Generation Optical Networks SONET/SDH 5 1.3 Point-to-point WDM Systems 9 1.4 Second Generation Optical Networks 10 1.4.1 Broadcast-and-Select WDM Networks 10 1.5 Wavelength-Routing Networks 12 1.5.1 Routing and Wavelength Assignment 13 1.5.2 Node Architecture 14 1.5.3 Wavelength Conversion 16 1.6 Issues and Motivation 20 1.7 Contributions and Outline of the Dissertation 25 CHAPTER 2. Wavelength Conversion and Optical Converter Placement in Arbitrary-Topology Wavelength-Routed Networks 28 2.