Traffic grooming is the name given to a family of optical network design
problems that has attracted significant attention from both academia and
industry in the last decade or so. Traffic grooming has grown from a
narrow research area to a mainstream requirement for real world
practitioners. This book presents the practical motivation, theoretical
description, and extant techniques for traffic grooming in optical
networks. The description of the various topics of research is authored
by leading researchers in this area, and contains comprehensive
description of related literature for each area. This book is intended
to be a definitive reference and text for traffic grooming both for the
practitioner in industry and the student in academia.