Traffic Grooming for Optical Networks: Foundations, Techniques and Frontiers covers the principles, technology, practice, and future of traffic grooming in optical networks. Traffic grooming is the name given to a family of optical network design and resource allocation algorithms that can enable cost-efficient use of both network bandwidth and electronic switching. This book provides an authoritative point of reference to traffic grooming developments including Synchronous Optical Network/Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SONET/SDH) and Generic Framing Procedure (GFP).

"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. The huge bandwidth of fiber optical networking is much larger than the typical bandwidth demands experienced by network service providers. This mismatch creates a need for multiplexing the low rate traffic demands into optical wavelength channels, but this requires costly electronic switching equipment, potentially offsetting the benefit of cheap optical transport. Traffic grooming refers to network design and resource allocation algorithms that can enable cost-efficient use of both network bandwidth and electronic switching. Due to the increasing bandwidth of optical communication on the one hand, and the growing variety of traffic demand magnitudes on the other, traffic grooming has grown from a narrow research area to a mainstream requirement for real world practitioners.

Foundations.- Grooming Switches.- Control Plane Support.- Grooming Mechanisms in SONET/SDH and Next-Generation SONET/SDH.- Computational Complexity.- Hierarchical Traffic Grooming.- Techniques.- Traffic Grooming In SONET/SDH Rings.- Traffic Grooming in Next-Generation SONET/SDH Networks.- Mathematical Programming Approaches.- Survivable Traffic Grooming.- Traffic Grooming Under Scheduled Service.- Dynamic Grooming Algorithms.- Performance Models for Dynamic Traffic Grooming.- Multipoint Traffic Grooming.- Frontiers.- Multi-Domain Traffic Grooming.- Grooming of Scheduled Demands in Multi-Layer Optical Networks.- All-Optical Traffic Grooming.