The current fast-growing Internet traffic is demanding more and more network capacity every
day. The concept of wavelength-division multiplexing has provided us an opportunity to …

With the growth of traffic volume and the emergence of various new applications, future
telecom networks are expected to be increasingly heterogeneous with respect to …

In this paper we study an alternate network architecture, called translucent network, to the
fully transparent and fully opaque network architectures. In a translucent wavelength-routed …

This study evaluates the relative merits of three approaches (transparency, opacity, and
translucency) for establishing calls in a wavelength-routed optical network. Call-admission …

Future telecommunication networks employing optical wavelength-division multiplexing
(WDM) are expected to be increasingly heterogeneous and support a wide variety of traffic …

This paper proposes an alternate approach to fully transparent and fully opaque optical
networks for operating a wavelength routed optical network. The architecture of the …

Publisher Summary The long-haul domain is extensively used for lightwave systems as the
cost of expensive hardware can be shared among many users. Nowadays, because the …

Optical networks based on passive-star couplers and employing WDM have been proposed
for deployment in local and metropolitan areas. These networks suffer from splitting …

In wavelength-routed all-optical networks, signals are transmitted on a direct optical path, or
a lightpath, in a single-hop manner without opto-electronic/electro-optic (OE/EO) conversion …

SIMON is an object-oriented event-driven simulation package implemented in C++ which
incorporates optical device characteristics in the measurement of network-level blocking …