PREFACE. |
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ABOUT THE AUTHORS. |
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1.1 The Evolution of Optical Networks. |
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1.1.1 Broadcast-and-Select Networks. |
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1.1.2 Wavelength-Routed Networks. |
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1.2 View of the Current Network. |
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1.4 Switching in Optical Networks. |
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1.4.3 Challenges for Optical Switching. |
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1.5 Optical Switching Paradigms. |
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2.1 Parameters Used for Switch Performance Evaluation. |
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2.2 Applications of Optical Switches. |
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2.2.1 Optical Crossconnects. |
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2.2.2 Protection and Restoration. |
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2.2.3 Optical Add/Drop Multiplexing. |
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2.2.4 Optical Signal Monitoring. |
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2.2.5 Network Provisioning. |
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2.3 Optical Switch Fabrics. |
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2.3.1 Optomechanical Switches. |
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2.3.2 Optical Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (Optical MEMS). |
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2.3.3 Electro-Optic Switches. |
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2.3.4 Thermo-Optic Switches. |
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2.3.5 Liquid-Crystal Switches. |
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2.3.7 Acousto-Optic Switches. |
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2.3.8 Semiconductor Optical Amplifier Switches. |
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2.3.9 All-Optical Switches. |
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2.4 Building Large Switches. |
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3 Optical Packet Switching. |
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3.2 Design Alternatives for Optical Packet Switches. |
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3.2.1 Synchronous versus Asynchronous Optical Packet Switching. |
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3.2.2 Header Format, Transmission, and Processing. |
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3.2.3 Electronic versus Optical Control. |
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3.2.4 Optical Switch Fabric Technology and Architecture. |
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3.3 Enabling Technologies for Optical Packet Switching. |
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3.3.1 All-Optical 3R Regeneration. |
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3.3.2 All-Optical Packet Delineation and Synchronization. |
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3.3.3 All-Optical Signal Processing. |
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3.3.4 All-Optical Buffering. |
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3.3.5 All-Optical Packet Switch Fabrics. |
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3.3.6 All-Optical Wavelength Conversion. |
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3.4 General Architecture of an Optical Packet Switch. |
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3.5 Wavelength Conversion in Optical Packet Switching. |
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3.5.1 Limited Range Wavelength Converters. |
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3.6 Contention Resolution in Optical Packet Switches. |
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3.6.2 Deflection Routing. |
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3.7 Quality of Service Support. |
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3.8 Optical Packet Switch Architectures. |
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3.8.1 KEOPS. |
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3.8.2 WASPNET. |
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3.8.3 The Data-Vortex Packet Switch. |
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3.9 Metropolitan Area Packet Switched Networks. |
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3.9.1 The HORNET Project. |
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4 Generalized Multiprotocol Label Switching. |
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4.2 Multiprotocol Label Switching. |
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4.2.2 Label Distribution. |
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4.2.3 Traffic Engineering. |
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4.2.4 Constraint-Based Routing. |
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4.2.5 Extensions to Routing Protocols. |
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4.2.6 Extensions to Signaling Protocols. |
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4.3 Generalized Multiprotocol Label Switching. |
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4.3.3 Fundamental GMPLS Features. |
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4.4 The GMPLS Protocol Suite. |
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4.4.2 Signaling Protocols. |
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4.4.3 Link Management Protocol. |
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4.5 Automatically Switched Optical Network (ASON). |
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4.5.1 The ASON Architecture. |
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5 Optical Burst Switching. |
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5.1 Network and Node Architecture. |
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5.1.1 Wavelength-Routed Optical Burst Switched Networks. |
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5.1.2 Labeled Optical Burst Switching. |
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5.2.1 Burst Assembly Algorithms. |
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5.2.2 Predictive Assembly Algorithms. |
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5.3.1 The JumpStart Signaling Architecture. |
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5.4 Routing and Wavelength Assignment in OBS Networks. |
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5.4.2 Wavelength Assignment. |
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5.5.1 Scheduling Algorithms Without Void Filling. |
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5.5.2 Scheduling Algorithms with Void Filling. |
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5.5.3 Efficient Implementations of Scheduling Algorithms. |
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5.5.4 Other Approaches to Burst Scheduling. |
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5.6 Contention Resolution. |
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5.6.1 Deflection Routing in OBS Networks. |
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5.6.2 Burst Segmentation. |
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5.6.3 Prioritized Contention Resolution. |
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5.7 Quality of Service Support. |
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5.7.2 Other Schemes for QoS Support. |
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5.8 Protection and Restoration. |
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5.8.1 1þ1 Protection in OBS Networks. |
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5.8.2 Restoration via Deflection Routing. |
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5.8.3 Reliability in OBS Networks. |
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INDEX. |
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