The advent of fiber optic transmission systems and wavelength division multiplexing (WDM)
have led to a dramatic increase in the usable bandwidth of single fiber systems. This book …

Optical networks and the related technologies, network management software and services
have undergone remarkable developments, and such networks are now the ultra-high …

With the increasing diversity of applications supported over optical networks, new service
guarantees must be offered to network customers. Among the emerging data-intensive …

Traffic grooming refers to the techniques used to aggregate subwavelength traffic onto high
speed lightpaths, while at the same time minimizing some measure of network cost, usually …

We investigate dynamic bandwidth allocation with flexible transmission rates for deadline-
driven requests (DDRs) in wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) mesh networks. DDRs …

We consider the traffic grooming problem, a fundamental network design problem in optical
networks. We review a typical integer linear program formulation considered in the literature …

Self care is a recent initiative by the Department of Health in the UK that aims to treat
patients with long-term conditions sooner, nearer to home and earlier in the course of their …

Advances in optical data transmission and optical signal routing have caused wide
expectation for optical networks to form tomorrow's backbone transport. One attractive …

In WDM networks, path protection has emerged as a widely accepted technique for
providing guaranteed survivability of network traffic. However, it requires allocating …

Traffic grooming continues to be a rich area of research in the context of WDM optical
networks. We provide an overview of the optical and electronic grooming techniques …