This book presents advances in the field of optical networks - specifically on research and applications in elastic optical networks (EON). The material reflects the authors’ extensive research and industrial activities and includes contributions from preeminent researchers and practitioners in optical networking. The authors discuss the new research and applications that address the issue of increased bandwidth demand due to disruptive, high bandwidth applications, e.g., video and cloud applications. The book also discusses issues with traffic not only increasing but becoming much more dynamic, both in time and direction, and posits immediate, medium, and long-term solutions throughout the text. The book is intended to provide a reference for network architecture and planning, communication systems, and control and management approaches that are expected to steer the evolution of EONs.
Author(s): Víctor López, Luis Velasco (eds.)
Series: Optical Networks
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Year: 2016
Language: English
Pages: VI, 299
Tags: Communications Engineering, Networks; Microwaves, RF and Optical Engineering; Computer Communication Networks
Front Matter....Pages i-vi
Motivation....Pages 1-5
Evolution from Wavelength-Switched to Flex-Grid Optical Networks....Pages 7-30
Taking Advantage of Elastic Optical Networks....Pages 31-54
Routing and Spectrum Allocation....Pages 55-81
Transmission in Elastic Optical Networks....Pages 83-116
Node Architectures for Elastic and Flexible Optical Networks....Pages 117-157
Sliceable Bandwidth Variable Transponders....Pages 159-188
GMPLS Control Plane....Pages 189-215
Software Defined Networking (SDN) in Optical Networks....Pages 217-244
Application-Based Network Operations (ABNO)....Pages 245-267
In-Operation Network Planning....Pages 269-292
Back Matter....Pages 293-299
