All-optical networks that employ wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) are an attractive architecture for future high-speed networks. Through WDM, multiple channels are created on a single fiber, and an aggregate network bandwidth far greater than the peak electronic processing speed can be realized. This paper provides a review and an extensive bibliography of proposed media access control (M...

Wavelength Division Multiplexed (WDM) networking technology has been identified as a suitable candidate for future wide area network (WAN) environments, due to its potential ability to meet rising demands of high bandwidth and low latency communication. As traffic demand in the Internet increases exponentially, Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) networks with Terabits per second bandwidth p...

The performance of optical components such as photonic switch, OXC, Optical Amplifiers is degraded by the presence of Non-linear effects in Optical networks. Four-wave Mixing (FWM) is the main deteriorating factor in WDM (Wavelength Division Multiplexing) Optical Network. It is necessary to study the impact of FWM on the performance of WDM networks. In this paper, we study the effects of FWM al...

ÐWith ever increasing demands on bandwidth from emerging bandwidth-intensive applications, such as video conferencing, E-commerce, and video-on-demand services, there has been an acute need for very high bandwidth transport network facilities. Optical networks are a promising candidate for this type of applications. At the same time, many bandwidth-intensive applications require multicast servi...

We describe a source-rooted WDM multicast tree construction protocol to support IP dense mode multicast routing protocols in all-optical lambda-switched networks. Using a receiver-initiated approach, the protocol relies on a mechanism that collects information on the capabilities of WDM nodes. This mechanism provides receivers with sufficient information to setup WDM multicast trees in networks...

We describe a source-rooted WDM multicast tree construction protocol to support IP dense mode multicast routing protocols in lambda-switched all-optical networks. Using a receiver-initiated approach, the protocol relies on a mechanism that collects information on the capabilities of WDM nodes. This mechanism provides receivers with sufficient information to setup WDM multicast trees in networks...

The first generation of optical networks employed primarily static point-to-point WDM systems to provide increased network capacity. Optical networks using WDM are now widely deployed in carrier networks, particularly in long-haul networks. For the most part, these point-to-point WDM systems provide tens of wavelengths worth of capacity over a single fiber pair, with each wavelength operating a...

This contribution gives a short introduction in optical WDM (Wavelength Division Multiplexing) networks with special focus on wide-area transport networks and on a possible evolution scenario towards all-optical networks. Furthermore, design and planning aspects for a WDM network are discussed. This comprises a short overview on a planning process in general and a presentation of some specific ...

Metro WDM networks play an important role in the emerging Internet hierarchy; they interconnect the backbone WDM networks and the local access networks. The current circuit-switched SONET/SDH-over-WDM-ring metro networks are expected to become a serious bottleneck — the so-called metro gap — as they are faced with an increasing amount of bursty packet data traffic and quickly increasing bandwid...

Towards EÆ ient Pa ket Swit hing Metro WDM Networks Martin Maier, Martin Reisslein, and Adam Wolisz Abstra t| In this paper, we brie y overview the urrent state{of{the{art of opti al WDM networking. We thereby point out that the ubiquitous SONET/SDH{WDM metro rings are likely to be ome a serious bottlene k between high{speed lo al area networks/broadband a ess te hnologies and WDM ba kbone netw...