With the advent of fiber optic transmission systems and Wavelength Division Multiplexing the usable bandwidth in a single fiber system has risen tremendously.  This development has two main impacts: the risk of losing large volumes of traffic data due to a failure of a node or a single fiber span and the management of smaller user requests over high capacity data pipes is more complex.  The first problem refers to survivability and the second to traffic grooming.  The problem becomes more complex in the context of wide-area networks, where mesh topologies are used to service various high-bandwidth connections.

In this book the author formulates these issues as complex optimization problems and presents effective solutions and heuristic methods to make such problems tractable.  Newer networking technologies and effective design methodologies are also included.

CONTENTS

1. Optical networking technology

2. Design issues

3. Restoration approaches

4. The p-cycle protection

5. Network operation

6. Managing large networks

7. Managing multiple link failures

8. Subgraph-based protection strategy

9. Traffic grooming in WDM networks

10. Gains of traffic grooming

11. Capacity fairness in grooming

12. Survivable traffic grooming

13. Static survivable grooming network design

14. Trunk switched networks

15. Blocking in TSN

16. Validation of the TSN model

17. Performance of dynamic routing in WDM grooming networks

18. IP over WDM traffic grooming

19. Light trail architecture for grooming

A1. Optical network components

A2. Network design

A3. Approaches to network design

A4. Graph model for network

A5. Graph algorithms

A6. Linear programming problems (LPPs)

A7. Routing algorithm

A8. Network topology design

A9. Quality of service (QoS) requirements

A10. Delays and queuing in network design.