Survivability and Traffic Grooming in WDM Optical Networks

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.

Author Biography

Arun K. Somani is Jerry R. Junkins Endowed Chair Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Iowa State University. His research interests are in the area of fault tolerant computing, computer interconnection networks, WDM-based optical networking, and parallel computer system architecture. He has served as IEEE distinguished visitor and IEEE distinguished tutorial speaker. He has been elected a Fellow of IEEE for his contributions to theory and applications of computer networks.