Towards an Optical Internet

Admela Jukan is an assistant professor with the Institute of Communication Networks at the Vienna University of Technology. She has engaged in a variety of optical network research projects, and is the author of more than 30 scientific papers in the field. She coordinates annually the IFIP Working Conference on Optical Network Design and Modelling.

One: Performance of wavelength-routed networks.- Performance of Multicast Sessions in Wavelength-Routed WDM Networks.- ILP Formulation of Grooming over Wavelength Routing with Protection.- Mapping of Arbitrary Traffic Demand and Network Topology on a Mesh of Rings Network.- A Design Method of Logical Topology for IP over WDM Networks with Stable Routing.- Influence of Chord Length on the Blocking Performance of Wavelength Routed Chordal Ring Networks.- Near Optimal Design of Lightpath Routing and Wavelength Assignment in Purely Optical WDM Networks.- Two: Protection and restoration in WDM networks.- An Intelligent and Mobile Agent-based Approach for Dynamic Protection Set-up in Future Optical Networks.- A Framework for Service-Guaranteed Path Protection of the Optical Internet.- Multiple Objective Heuristic for Ring Loading and Logical Wavelength Assignment in OCH-SPRings.- Three: Optical packet and burst switching.- Optical Packet Switching over Arbitrary Physical Topologies using the Manhattan Street Network: An Evolutionary Approach.- Packet-selective Photonic Add/Drop Multiplexer and Its Application to Ultrahigh-speed Optical Data Networkings in LAN and MAN.- Bandwidth Utilisation and Wavelength Re-Use in WDM Optical Burst-Switched Packet Networks.- Traffic Characterisation Using Optical Based Packet Switches with Poisson and Fractal Traffic Sources.- Traffic Load Bounds for Optical Burst-Switched Networks with Dynamic Wavelength Allocation.- Four: Advances in optical network technologies.- Skew Compensation in All Optical Bit Parallel WDM Systems.- Effect of EDFA Cross-Gain Saturation on the Transmission of Packetized Burst-Mode Data over WDM.- Influence of Intensity Noise in Spectrum-sliced WDM Systems.- OPC-TDM Network Performance Improvement by the Use of Full-scalable Optical Packet Compression/Decompression Units.- A Transponder for Gigabit Ethernet over WDM.- Five: IP and WDM-based network architectures.- Link and Path Asymmetry Issues in IP over WDM Transport Networks.- On Design and Architecture of an IP over WDM Optical Network Control Plane.- Analysis and Dimensioning of Interconnected Single-layer “Switchless” All-optical Networks.- IP Differentiated Services over a WDM Passive Optical Star.- Six: Wavelength routing and on-demand circuit provisioning.- Wavelength Assignment in Optical Networks According to Traffic Requirements and Transmission Impairments.- Dynamic Wavelength Provisioning in DWDM-Based Optical Network.- Lightring: A Distributed and Contention-free Bandwidth On-Demand Architecture.- Distributed Discovery of Wavelength Paths in Multi-Service WDM Networks.- Author index.