The advent of fiber optic transmission systems and wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) have led to a dramatic increase in the usable bandwidth of single fibe

Covers these key topics: Shared-mesh protection for optical WDM networks. Survivable traffic grooming for hierarchical optical WDM networks. Survivable data ove

This book presents the practical motivation, theoretical description, and extant techniques for traffic grooming in optical networks. The description of the var

Optical networks have moved from laboratory settings and theoretical research to real-world deployment and service-oriented explorations. New technologies such