Intense competition between transport network service providers and the widespread deployment of vulnerable high-capacity fiber optic transport facilities has created the need for networks with short restoration times. This paper presents an optimized distributed real time path restoration mechanism, named OPRA, capable of restoring network failures quickly with performance close to centralized...

THE HUMAN VISUAL SYSTEM COMPRISES ELONGATED FIBER PATHWAYS THAT REPRESENT A SERIOUS CHALLENGE FOR DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING (DTI) AND FIBER TRACTOGRAPHY: while tracking of frontal fiber bundles may be compromised by the nearby presence of air-filled cavities, nerves, and eye muscles, the anatomic courses of the three main fiber bundles of the optic radiation are subject to pronounced inter-subje...

We consider the important practical and theoretical problem of designing a low-cost communications network which can survive failures of certain network components. Our initial interest in this area was motivated by the need to design certain “twoconnected” survivable topologies for fiber optic communication networks of interest to the regional telephone companies. In this paper, we describe so...

The fiber optics and optoelectronics industry has experienced a tremendous amount of innovation over the past four decades. Initially conceived for medical endoscopic applications, optical fibers were considered in the mid-1960s as an adequate technology for telecommunications applications. Since then, light wave communications systems have become the preferred and standard method to transmit v...

Optical fiber arrays provide a powerful substrate for creating high-density sensing systems that can address a variety of biological problems. The fiber substrate can be used to create femtoliter wells that can be loaded with individual beads to create high-density arrays for multiplexed screening and analysis. In addition, living cells can be loaded into the arrays, and their individual respon...

This chapter describes the challenges of effectively utilizing distributed resources in a new Professional Campus Environment. In this environment, the synthesis and manipulation of multimedia data from physically distinct locations is a critical activity which requires development of advanced network technology. Such a network will make use of fiber-optic interconnects, highthroughput, low-lat...

Labuan Bajo and Komodo National Park (KNP) are the government's agendas in tourism sector by making area a premium tourist destination. On that basis, potential of region requires infrastructure development to support this plan. One critical infrastructures is telecommunications, where does not have direct fiber-optic line. In paper, authors propose two scenarios design networks also consider f...