Multichannel optical networks

Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to computer science (68-02) Performance evaluation, queueing, and scheduling in the context of computer systems (68M20) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to operations research and mathematical programming (90-02) Communication networks in operations research (90B18) Applications of design theory to circuits and networks (94C30)

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Today, optical communication is a dominant technology due to the great challenges arising from the wavelength division multiplexing (WDM). This well-written monograph is based on the contributions of the author in this area focusing on graph-theoretic and algorithmic aspects of optical networks. It is an illuminating, stimulating, comprehensive and up-to-date treatment of the emerging new subject of optical networks. The monograph is divided into four parts, each consisting of three chapters. The first part deals with multichannel optical networking architectures. Chapter 1 provides a brief survey of optical transmission, access and premise networks. Chapter 2 describes the exciting application of the emerging optical integrated circuit technology. Chapter 3 builds an optical network with large number of working wavelengths and cheap optical transceivers of small tunable ranges. The second part discusses broadcast-and-sheet passive optical networks. Chapter 4 determines the subnetwork structures of multi-receiver broadcast-and-select optical networks with various regular interconnection topologies. Chapter 5 identifies the logical properties of passive optical networks embedded with hypercubes, star graphs and rotator digraphs. Chapter 6 investigates the minimal disjoint channel set assignment in multi-star cluster interconnection networks and obtains optimal or near optimal vertex colouring schemes. The third part considers wavelength-switched optical networks. Chapter 7 gives simpler and efficient algorithms for minimal wavelength assignment to lightpaths in rings and trees of rings. Chapter 8 studies how to support maximal number of connection requests subject to limited available wavelength conversion and finds polynomial-time algorithms. Chapter 9 considers wavelength-switched optical networks with wavelength conversion and presents efficient algorithms when the underlying topology of the network is a tree. The fourth part explores SONET/WDM optical networks. Chapter 10 studies the grooming of arbitrary traffic in WDM BLSRs by decomposing the traffic groooming into two subproblems. Chapter 11 addresses the optimal grooming of all-to-all uniform traffic in WDM/BLSRs by applying classical combinatorial designs. Chapter 12 is devoted to single-hub WDM self-healing rings. The book provides many graph theory and algorithm oriented open research problems. It also covers applied research topics of interest to theoretical computer scientists. It discusses fundamental network architectures and advanced networking design issues in sufficient detail and depth making it ideal to be used as a graduate textbook or reference book in optical networks. Industry professionals will also find this book useful as a reference source.

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