Optical network design and modelling is an essential issue for planning and operating networks for the next century. The main issues in optical networking are being widely investigated, not only for WDM networks but also for optical TDM and optical packet switching. This book contributes to further progress in optical network architectures, design, operation and management and covers the following topics in detail:

One Routing Algorithms for Optical Networks.- Restoration Methods for Multi-Service Optical Networks.- Performance Evaluation of Photonic Networks under Dynamic Traffic Conditions.- Two Wavelength Conversion and Assignment.- Devices for All-Optical Wavelength Conversion and Spectral Inversion.- Where to Locate Wavelength Conversion in WDM Networks?.- Wavelength Assignment in WDM Networks - A Comparison of Approaches.- Three Optical Technologies for Local and Access Networks.- An Optically Transparent Ultra High Speed LAN-Ring Employing OTDM.- Efficient Multi-Hop Scheduling Algorithms for All-Optical WDM/TDM Broadcast-and-Select Networks with Arbitrary Transceiver Tuning Latencies.- Analysis of Wireless Broadband Systems Employing Optical Fiber Links.- Four Transmission in Optical Transport Networks.- Impact of Transmission Performances on Path Routing in All-Optical Transport Networks.- Electrical Dispersion Compensation for 10 Gbit/S Transmission Systems: Simulation Results.- Five Transmission in Optical Transport Networks II.- Modelling of System Impairments due to Four Wave Mixing in Dispersion Shifted Links Having Non Uniform Zero-Dispersion Wavelength.- Investigation on the Capacities of Optically Amplified Transmission Systems in Geographic Networks.- Six Traffic Modeling.- Self-Similarity in Wide-Area Network Traffic.- The Impact of the Hurst Parameter on Queueing Performance Using Chaotic Sequences.- Performance Analysis of a Single Server Queue Loaded by Long Range Dependent Input Traffic.- Seven Advanced Topics in Optical Networks.- Atm and Optics.- Designing Physical Topologies for Wavelength-Routed All-Optical Networks.- Digital Chaos Synchronization in Optical Networks.- Index of Contributors.