Traffic Grooming in Optical WDM Mesh Networks captures the
state-of-the-art in the design and analysis of network architectures,
protocols, and algorithms for implementing efficient traffic grooming in
optical WDM mesh networks. Key topics include: Static traffic grooming;
Dynamic traffic grooming; Grooming models and policies; Grooming node
architectures; Design of grooming network; Traffic grooming in
next-generation SONET/SDH networks. The authors investigate
traffic-grooming problems in optical WDM mesh networks from various
aspects. They cover static and dynamic traffic grooming, as well as
grooming policies for both environments. A fundamental graph model for
traffic-grooming networks is proposed. A variety of grooming-node
architectures are examined and their performances compared. Design of
traffic-grooming networks using different node architectures is
explored, and traffic grooming in next-generation SONET/SDH networks is
presented.