JUN ZHENG, PhD, is a research scientist with the School of Information Technology and Engineering at the University of Ottawa, Canada. He received his PhD from the University of Hong Kong. He has been involved in extensive research and development in telecommunications engineering for many years. An award-winning scientist in the communications technology field, Zheng is a member of IEEE. HUSSEIN T. MOUFTAH, PhD, is Canada Research Chair Professor in the School of Information Technology and Engineering at the University of Ottawa, Canada. Formerly a professor and associate head of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Queen’s University, he is an IEEE Fellow and served as editor-in-chief of IEEE Communications magazine and later as IEEE Communications Society Director of Magazines. Dr. Mouftah is author or coauthor of three books and more than 700 technical papers and eight patents.

"Scientists and researchers working with optical communications will welcome all these reference materials." (IEEE Circuits & Devices, May/June 2006)

• 1. Introduction. 2. Fundamentals of WDM network devices.3. Routing and wavelength assignment.4. Virtual topology design.5. Distributed lightpath establishment.6. Optical layer survivability.7. IP over WDM.8. Future trends in optical networks.Appendix A: Basics of graph theory.Appendix B: Dijkstra's algorithm.

JUN ZHENG, PhD, is a research scientist with the School of Information Technology and Engineering at the University of Ottawa, Canada. He received his PhD from the University of Hong Kong. He has been involved in extensive research and development in telecommunications engineering for many years. An award-winning scientist in the communications technology field, Zheng is a member of IEEE. HUSSEIN T. MOUFTAH, PhD, is Canada Research Chair Professor in the School of Information Technology and Engineering at the University of Ottawa, Canada. Formerly a professor and associate head of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Queen’s University, he is an IEEE Fellow and served as editor-in-chief of IEEE Communications magazine and later as IEEE Communications Society Director of Magazines. Dr. Mouftah is author or coauthor of three books and more than 700 technical papers and eight patents.

"Scientists and researchers working with optical communications will welcome all these reference materials." (IEEE Circuits & Devices, May/June 2006)

• 1. Introduction. 2. Fundamentals of WDM network devices.3. Routing and wavelength assignment.4. Virtual topology design.5. Distributed lightpath establishment.6. Optical layer survivability.7. IP over WDM.8. Future trends in optical networks.Appendix A: Basics of graph theory.Appendix B: Dijkstra's algorithm.

JUN ZHENG, PhD, is a research scientist with the School of Information Technology and Engineering at the University of Ottawa, Canada. He received his PhD from the University of Hong Kong. He has been involved in extensive research and development in telecommunications engineering for many years. An award-winning scientist in the communications technology field, Zheng is a member of IEEE. HUSSEIN T. MOUFTAH, PhD, is Canada Research Chair Professor in the School of Information Technology and Engineering at the University of Ottawa, Canada. Formerly a professor and associate head of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Queen’s University, he is an IEEE Fellow and served as editor-in-chief of IEEE Communications magazine and later as IEEE Communications Society Director of Magazines. Dr. Mouftah is author or coauthor of three books and more than 700 technical papers and eight patents.

"Scientists and researchers working with optical communications will welcome all these reference materials." (IEEE Circuits & Devices, May/June 2006)

• 1. Introduction. 2. Fundamentals of WDM network devices.3. Routing and wavelength assignment.4. Virtual topology design.5. Distributed lightpath establishment.6. Optical layer survivability.7. IP over WDM.8. Future trends in optical networks.Appendix A: Basics of graph theory.Appendix B: Dijkstra's algorithm.