This book takes a pragmatic approach to deploying state-of-the-art optical networking
equipment in metro-core and backbone networks. The book is oriented towards practical …

Over the past 25 years, networks have evolved from being relatively static with fairly
homogeneous traffic to being more configurable and carrying a heterogeneous array of …

This paper investigates the prospects and challenges of hierarchical optical path networks.
The merits and issues of introducing higher order optical paths are elucidated. State of the …

The wavelength routed network (WRN) accommodates traffic demands by establishing
lightpaths along the corresponding routing paths. The wavelength of each lightpath is …

To overcome the inefficiency of the rigid frequency allocation in traditional wavelength
division multiplexing (WDM) networks, the idea of slicing the optical spectrum for elastic and …

Feature Issue on Waveband Switching, Routing, and Grooming Optical networks using
wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) are the foremost solution to the ever-increasing …

Using previously validated measures, belonging and psychological sense of community are
measured in a cross section of engineering communities including engineering classes at …

Waveband switching (WBS) in conjunction with multigranular optical cross-connect (MG-
OXC) architectures can reduce the cost and complexity of switching nodes. In this paper, we …

This paper proposes new switch architectures for hierarchical optical path cross-connect
(HOXC) systems. The architectures allow incremental expansion of system scale in terms of …

Waveband switching (WBS) in conjunction with multigranular optical cross-connect (MG-
OXC) architectures can reduce the cost and complexity of OXCs. In this paper, we study the …