Optical Networks

Description

Optical Networks provides a comprehensive all-in-one text for beginning graduate as well as final-year undergraduate students, and also serves well for R&D engineers to quickly refresh the basics and then move on to emerging topics.

• Presents the whole subject with a natural flow from optical networks overview and technologies (Part I), to first-generation optical networks using single-wavelength transmission (Part II), next-generation WDM networks (Part III), and some selected contemporary as well as emerging topics on optical networks (Part IV)
• Pedagogical presentation of underlying concepts and analytical models, with minimal reference to background material
• Inclusion of the first-generation optical networks
• Inclusion of several contemporary and emerging topics, not discussed so far in the other books
• Three appendices present fundamental mathematical tools in a lucid manner: linear programming, optical receiver noise processes and queuing theory

About the Author(s)

Debasish Datta, Professor, Department of Electronics and Electrical Communication, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur

Professor Debasish Datta served in the faculty of Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur for over 37 years till 2017. He visited several overseas universities including Stanford University, University of California at Davis, Chonbuk National University, South Korea, and University of Malaya. He served as a Guest Editor for IEEE JSAC for the special Issue on WDM-based Network Architectures and served on the Editorial Boards of IEEE Communication Surveys and Tutorials and Elsevier Journal of Optical Switching and Networking. Currently, he is engaged in mentoring researchers in the area of optical networks as a visiting professor at various Indian universities.

Table of Contents

1:Optical Networks: An Overview
2:Technologies for Optical Networks
3:Optical Local/Metrpolitan-Area Networks
4:Optical Access Networks
5:SONET/SDH, OTN and RPR
6:WDM Local-Area Networks
7:WDM Access Networks
8:WDM Metro Networks
9:WDM Long-Haul Networks
10:Transmission Impairments and Power Consumption in Optical Networks
11:Survivability of Optical Networks
12:Optical Network Control and Management
13:Datacenter Networks
14:Elastic Optical Networks
15:Optical Packet and Burst-Switched Networks

Reviews

"...the book's coverage extends from history to technology basics to systems and applications, with copious amounts of detail and considerable mathematical depth." - Bogdan Hoanca, Optics & Photonics News

"Well written with a comprehensive coverage of all major aspects of optical networking today. " - Keith Blow, Aston Institute of Photonic Technologies

"Thorough, authoritative, and very useful for graduate students, researchers, and industry practitioners. " - Rudra Dutta, North Carolina State University

"Current and forward looking, with a systematic overview of the evolution of optical networks. " - Marija Furdek, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden