Optical Networks

• One Routing Algorithms for Optical Networks.- Restoration Methods for Multi-Service Optical Networks.- Performance Evaluation of Photonic Networks under Dynamic Traffic Conditions.- Two Wavelength Conversion and Assignment.- Devices for All-Optical Wavelength Conversion and Spectral Inversion.- Where to Locate Wavelength Conversion in WDM Networks?.- Wavelength Assignment in WDM Networks — A Comparison of Approaches.- Three Optical Technologies for Local and Access Networks.- An Optically Transparent Ultra High Speed LAN-Ring Employing OTDM.- Efficient Multi-Hop Scheduling Algorithms for All-Optical WDM/TDM Broadcast-and-Select Networks with Arbitrary Transceiver Tuning Latencies.- Analysis of Wireless Broadband Systems Employing Optical Fiber Links.- Four Transmission in Optical Transport Networks.- Impact of Transmission Performances on Path Routing in All-Optical Transport Networks.- Electrical Dispersion Compensation for 10 Gbit/S Transmission Systems: Simulation Results.- Five Transmission in Optical Transport Networks II.- Modelling of System Impairments due to Four Wave Mixing in Dispersion Shifted Links Having Non Uniform Zero-Dispersion Wavelength.- Investigation on the Capacities of Optically Amplified Transmission Systems in Geographic Networks.- Six Traffic Modeling.- Self-Similarity in Wide-Area Network Traffic.- The Impact of the Hurst Parameter on Queueing Performance Using Chaotic Sequences.- Performance Analysis of a Single Server Queue Loaded by Long Range Dependent Input Traffic.- Seven Advanced Topics in Optical Networks.- Atm and Optics.- Designing Physical Topologies for Wavelength-Routed All-Optical Networks.- Digital Chaos Synchronization in Optical Networks.- Index of Contributors.

'...the papers are nicely written and the reader will find many good review papers as well as important experiments and concepts.' Optik, 113:4