Traffic Grooming in Optical WDM Mesh Networks

Traffic Grooming in Optical WDM Mesh Networks captures the state-of-the-art in the design and analysis of network architectures, protocols, and algorithms for implementing efficient traffic grooming in optical WDM mesh networks. Key topics include:

- Static traffic grooming

- Dynamic traffic grooming

- Grooming models and policies

- Grooming node architectures

- Design of grooming network

- Traffic grooming in next-generation SONET/SDH networks

The authors investigate traffic-grooming problems in optical WDM mesh networks from various aspects. They cover static and dynamic traffic grooming, as well as grooming policies for both environments. A fundamental graph model for traffic-grooming networks is proposed. A variety of grooming-node architectures are examined and their performances compared. Design of traffic-grooming networks using different node architectures is explored, and traffic grooming in next-generation SONET/SDH networks is presented.

Communication industry practitioners, researchers, and graduate students who work on (and/or want to learn more about) optical WDM networks