The huge bandwidth of optical fiber was recognized back in the 1970s
during the early development of fiber optic technology. For the last two
decades, the capacity of experimental and deployed systems has been
increasing at a rate of 100-fold each decade-a rate exceeding the
increase of integrated circuit speeds. Today, optical communication in
the public communication networks has developed from the status of a
curiosity into being the dominant technology. Various great challenges
arising from the deployment of the wavelength division multiplexing
(WDM) have attracted a lot of efforts from many researchers. Indeed, the
optical networking has been a fertile ground for both theoretical
researches and experimental studies. This monograph presents the
contribution from my past and ongoing research in the optical networking
area. The works presented in this book focus more on graph-theoretical
and algorithmic aspects of optical networks. Although this book is
limited to the works by myself and my coauthors, there are many
outstanding achievements made by other individuals, which will be cited
in many places in this book. Without the inspiration from their efforts,
this book would have never been possible. This monograph is divided into
four parts: - Multichannel Optical Networking Architectures, -
Broadcast-and-Select Passive Optical Networks, - Wavelength-Switched
Optical Networks, - SONET/WDM Optical Networks. The first part consists
of the first three chapters. Chapter 1 pro- vides a brief survey on the
networking architectures of optical trans- XVll xvm MULTICHANNEL OPTICAL
NETWORKS port networks, optical access networks and optical premise
networks.
