The big picture -- The layered architecture and its resources -- Network connections -- Enabling technology -- Statis multipoint networks -- Wavelength/waveband-routed networks -- Logically-routed networks -- Survivability : protection and restoration -- Optical control plane -- Optical packet-switched newtorks -- Current trends in multiwavelength optical networking -- Graph theory -- Fixed scheduling algorithm -- Markov chains and queues -- A limiting-cut heuristic -- An algorithm for minimum-interference routing in linear lightwave networks -- Synopsis of the SONET standard -- A looping algorithm
Summary
Focusing on the characteristics of the underlying technology of multiwavelength optical networks, this text provides a structure for designing and analysing lightwave networks
