The chapter is organized as follows. Sections 16.1 to 16.3 constitute the first part of the
chapter, namely, physical network layer design. In Sect. 16.1, the physical impairments that …

The criticality of survivable network design and operation increases with increasing
transmission speed. Path protection strategies achieve better network utilization compared …

We consider the problem of designing a network of optical cross-connects (OXCs) which
provides end-to-end lightpath services to large numbers of client nodes, under the …

Link protection schemes for WDM-based optical networks have been extensively
researched. Most work to date has ignored the physical layer impairments (PLIs) that could …

A quality-of-service (QoS)-aware routing engine for a transparent optical network that
accounts for physical layer impairments (PLI) is presented. PLI are studied collectively by …

Template for Invited Papers ECOC 2010 Page 1 Architectural Options and Challenges for Next
Generation Optical Access Dirk Breuer, Ralf Hülsermann, Christoph Lange, Thomas Monath …

All-optical networks, in which the electrical regeneration bottlenecks are removed, are seen
as the next-generation backbone networks. Any link failure in these high-speed …

Fixed-access networks have had a tremendous impact on society over the last few decades
enabling residential broadband services and being a driver for the digitalization of society …

The Routing and Wavelength Assignment (RWA) problem has been extensively studied
over the last decade, but only in recent years algorithms were specifically developed (or …

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communication systems, and novel routing techniques and switching node architectures …