Metropolitan Area Wdm Networks: An Awg Based Approach

ISBN-13: 9781461351139 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 312 str.

Martin Maier

Opis

This extensive volume provides a comprehensive and technically detailed overview of the latest metropolitan area WDM network experimental systems, architectures and access protocols. Readers will benefit from the thorough overview and gain an in-depth understanding of current and next-generation metro WDM networks.

Recenzje

"We believe that this book will be an important contribution in this exciting development in optical networking."
From the Foreword by Dr. Martin Reisslein, Arizona State University and Dr. Biswanath Mukherjee, University of California, Davis

Spis treści

I Introduction.- 1. Basics.- 1.1 Components.- 1.1.1 Combiners and splitters.- 1.1.2 Passive star coupler (PSC).- 1.1.3 Arrayed-waveguide grating (AWG).- 1.1.4 Transmitters and receivers.- 1.2 Transmission impairments.- 1.2.1 Attenuation.- 1.2.2 Dispersion.- 1.2.3 Nonlinearities.- 1.2.4 Crosstalk.- 1.2.5 Noise.- II Metro WDM Networks.- 2. Ring Networks.- 2.1 Experimental systems.- 2.1.1 KomNet.- 2.1.2 RINGO.- 2.1.3 HORNET.- 2.2 WDM rings and access protocols.- 2.2.1 Slotted rings without channel inspection.- 2.2.2 Slotted rings with channel inspection.- 2.2.3 Slotted rings with control channel.- 2.2.4 Multitoken rings.- 2.2.5 Meshed rings.- 2.3 Fairness control and QoS support.- 2.3.1 Fairness control.- 2.3.2 QoS support.- 3. Star Networks.- 3.1 Experimental systems.- 3.1.1 RAINBOW.- 3.1.2 Telstra.- 3.1.3 NTT.- 3.2 Single-hop WDM networks and access protocols.- 3.2.1 Preallocation protocols.- 3.2.2 Random access protocols.- 3.2.3 Reservation protocols.- 3.2.4 Hybrid protocols.- 3.2.5 Resulting guidelines.- III AWG Based Approach.- 4. Architectural Comparisons.- 4.1 Single-hop vs. multihop AWG based networks.- 4.1.1 Architecture.- 4.1.2 Mean hop distance.- 4.1.3 Capacity.- 4.1.4 Results.- 4.1.5 Discussion.- 4.2 PSC vs. AWG based single-hop networks.- 4.2.1 Spatial wavelength reuse.- 4.2.2 Architecture and wavelength assignment.- 4.2.3 Analysis.- 4.2.4 Results.- 4.2.5 Discussion.- 4.3 Conclusions.- 5. Architecture and Protocol.- 5.1 Network requirements.- 5.2 Architecture.- 5.2.1 Underlying principles.- 5.2.2 Network and node architecture.- 5.3 MAC protocol.- 5.3.1 Protocol.- 5.3.2 An illustrative example.- 5.3.3 Discussion.- 5.4 Conclusions.- 6. Performance Evaluation.- 6.1 Using multiple FSRs.- 6.1.1 Assumptions.- 6.1.2 Model.- 6.1.3 Analysis.- 6.1.4 Results.- 6.2 Spatial wavelength reuse.- 6.2.1 Assumptions.- 6.2.2 Analysis.- 6.2.3 Results.- 6.3 Multicasting.- 6.3.1 Multicasting with partitioning.- 6.3.2 Multicasting simultaneously with control.- 6.4 Supplementary simulation results.- 6.4.1 Self-stability.- 6.4.2 Packet loss.- 6.4.3 Circuit switching.- 6.4.4 Benchmark comparison.- 6.5 Conclusions.- 7. Network Dimensioning and Reconfiguration.- 7.1 Multiservice convergence.- 7.2 Multiobjective optimization.- 7.2.1 Objective functions.- 7.2.2 Decision variables and constraints.- 7.2.3 Pareto optimality.- 7.3 Genetic algorithms.- 7.3.1 Basic principle.- 7.3.2 Genetic operations.- 7.4 Results.- 7.4.1 Pareto-optimal architecture planning.- 7.4.2 Pareto-optimal network operation.- 7.5 Conclusions.- 8. Feasibility Issues.- 8.1 Transmission limitations.- 8.1.1 Eye diagrams.- 8.1.2 Q factor.- 8.2 Packet traces.- 8.3 Discussion.- 8.4 Conclusions.- 9. Protection.- 9.1 Heterogeneous protection.- 9.2 AWG PSC architecture.- 9.3 MAC protocols.- 9.3.1 AWG-PSCmode.- 9.3.2 PSC-only mode.- 9.3.3 AWG-only mode.- 9.4 Results.- 9.5 Conclusions.- 10. Conclusions.- 10.1 Future research avenues.- 10.2 Standardization activities.- IV Appendices.- Appendices.- A Acronyms.- B.1 Refined approximation.- B.2 Numerical evaluation.- References.