This book takes a pragmatic approach to deploying state-of-the-art optical networking
equipment in metro-core and backbone networks. The book is oriented towards practical …

Providing quality-of-service (QoS) guarantees in packet networks gives rise to several
challenging issues. One of them is how to determine a feasible path that satisfies a set of …

Traffic engineering aims to distribute traffic so as to" optimize" some performance criterion.
This optimal distribution of traffic depends on both the routing protocol and the forwarding …

The underlying concepts of an exact QoS routing algorithm are explained. We show that
these four concepts, namely 1) nonlinear definition of the path length; 2) a/spl kappa …

This paper investigates the problem of dynamic survivable lightpath provisioning in optical
mesh networks employing wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM). In particular, we focus …

We consider a new QoS routing problem which requires the on-line routing of a bandwidth
guaranteed path along with the setting up of bypass paths for every link or node traversed by …

It is challenging to deal with the Internet congestion problem because of several factors such
as ever-growing traffic and distributed network architecture. The congestion problem can be …

It is expected that multiprotocol label switching (MPLS) based recovery could become a
viable option for obtaining faster restoration than layer 3 rerouting. To deliver reliable …

In MPLS/GMPLS networks, a range of restoration schemes are required to support different
tradeoffs between service interruption time and network resource utilization. In light of these …

The design of survivable mesh based communication networks has received considerable
attention in recent years. One task is to route backup paths and allocate spare capacity in …