Survivability and Traffic Grooming in WDM Optical Networks

This book provides coverage of survivability and traffic grooming; two key issues in modern optical networks.

Arun Somani (Author)

9780521853880, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 19 January 2006

460 pages
23.5 x 18 x 2.7 cm, 1.069 kg

The advent of fiber optic transmission systems and wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) have led to a dramatic increase in the usable bandwidth of single fiber systems. This book provides detailed coverage of survivability (dealing with the risk of losing large volumes of traffic data due to a failure of a node or a single fiber span) and traffic grooming (managing the increased complexity of smaller user requests over high capacity data pipes), both of which are key issues in modern optical networks. A framework is developed to deal with these problems in wide-area networks, where the topology used to service various high-bandwidth (but still small in relation to the capacity of the fiber) systems evolves toward making use of a general mesh. Effective solutions, exploiting complex optimization techniques, and heuristic methods are presented to keep network problems tractable. Newer networking technologies and efficient design methodologies are also described.

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.

Subject Areas: Signal processing [UYS], Electronics & communications engineering [TJ], Electrical engineering [THR]