Roberto Sabella - Böcker

This text provides a comprehensive coverage of the design and modelling of the devices and systems required for optical communication networks. It should be a useful reference text for those engineers implementing and designing such networks and deals with modelling and simulation of optical links at the levels both of devices and of systems. Simulation experiments and results are included, as are details of devices under development in research laboratories. Optical and telecommuntications scientists working in research, and development and design engineers working in the field should find this text to be a useful resource.

Optical network design and modelling is an essential issue for planning and operating networks for the next century. The main issues in optical networking are being widely investigated, not only for WDM networks but also for optical TDM and optical packet switching. This book contributes to further progress in optical network architectures, design, operation and management and covers the following topics in detail: routing strategies and algorithms for optical networks; network planning and design; wavelength conversion and wavelength assignment in optical networks; technologies for optical networks (transport, access and local area networks); transmission aspects in wide area optical networks; and new paradigms for traffic modelling. This book contains the selected proceedings of the Second International Working Conference on Optical Network Design and Modelling, which was sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP), and held in February 1998, in Rome, Italy. It is aimed at personnel in computer/communication industries, and academic and research staff in computer science and electrical engineering.

High Speed Optical Communications provides a comprehensive coverage of the design and modelling of the devices and systems required for optical communication networks. It will prove to be the essential reference text for those engineers implementing and designing such networks and is one of the few works dealing with modelling and simulation of optical links at the levels both of devices and of systems. Simulation experiments and results are included, as are details of devices currently under development in research laboratories. Covers both the technical details of optical devices and their behaviour in complex systems; Includes results of applications experiments. Optical and telecommuntications scientists working in research and development and design engineers working in the field will find this text to be an indispensable resource.