References
Articles:
[A] Optical Networks: A Ray of Light.
Author:Kate Gerwig (editor: CMP Media Inc’s InternetWeek Mag)
(http://www.acm.org/pubs/citations/journals/networker/1998-2-4/p17-gerwig)
[B] Optical Networking Research:The State of Art
Author:Alastair M. Glass(Director of Photonic Research at Lucent’s Bell Labs)
(http://www.lucent.com/netsys/news/optical_research.html It is a broken link. Look at the cached page
on google)
[C] Optical networking lightens carrier-backbone burden (EDN Access Magazine: October 8 1998)
[D] DWDM Rising( Telephony Magazine April 19 1999,
http://www.internettelephony.com/archive/4.19.99/Cover/cover.htm )
[E] Enlightening the effects and implications of nearly infinite bandwidth: Samir Chatterjee and
Suzanne Pawlowski (Comm. Of ACM June ‘99)
[F] Requirements for success in gigabit Networking: S. Chatterjee (ACM July ’97)
[G] Optical Networking Update: P.E.Green (IEEE Journal on Selected Areas, June ’96)
[H] Mining the Optical Bandwidth for a terabit per second: A.E.Willner (IEEE Spectrum, April ’97)
[I] Optical Networks: Alcatel(http://www.webproforum.com/wpf_all.html)
[J] Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing Tutorial : Lucent Technologies
(http://www.webproforum.com/dwdm/index.html)
[K] WDM: North American deployment trends: J.P. Ryan (IEEE Comm. , Feb ‘98)
[L] Benefits of WDM and ATM: Oded Agam Director of Technical Services, Radcom Inc. (Telecom
Business magazine December ’98)
(http://www.protocols.com/papers/wdm.htm)
[M] WDM All-Optical Networks. Project Report: Janice Hudgings & Jocelyn Nee, Fall ‘96
(http://www-bsac.eecs.berkeley.edu/~jnee/ee228a)
[N] Amplifiers at 1590nm double the DWDM bandwidth: Dan Yang, AFC Technologies, Sept ’98
(http://www.broadband-guide.com/lw/reports/report09985.html)
Papers, Internet Drafts, RFCs:
[1] Routing and Wavelength Assignment in All-Optical Networks: R.Ramaswami and Kumar N.
Sivarajan (October 1995 IEEE/ACM Transactions)
[2] Wavelength Requirements of All-Optical Networks: Rajesh K. Pankaj, Robert E. Gallagher (IEEE/
ACM Trans. ‘95)
[3] Benefits of Limited Wavelength Conversion in WDM ring networks: O. Gerstel, Rajiv Ramaswami,
G. Sasaki
[4] OPTNET: A Cost Effective Optical Network for Multiprocessors: E.V.Carrera and Ricardo
Bianchini (ACM ’98)
[5] All-Optical Networks with Sparse Wavelength Conversion: S. Subramaniam, M. Azizoglu, A.K.
Somani (IEEE/ACM Trans. Jan ’96)
[6] Efficient Routing in Optical Networks: Alok Aggarwal, Amotz Bar-noy, And Don Coppersmith, R.
Ramaswami, B. Schieber, Madhu Sudan (Journal of ACM , June ’96)
[7] Architecture for an Optical Network Layer : O.Gerstel, P.E. Green, R. Ramswami (Feb’16 ’96)
[8] Architectures for Linear Lightwave Networks, Ph.D Dissertation Rakesh Pankaj(MIT ’92)
[9] Multiwavelength Optical Networks with Limited Wavelength Conversion: R. Ramaswami, G. Sasaki
(IEEE/ACM Trans. ‘98)
[10] Ring routing and Wavelength translations: G.Wilfong, P. Winkler (ACM-SIAM Symposium on
Discrete Algorithms , ’98)
[11] Wavelength Conversion in Optical Networks: Jon Kleinburg and Amit Kumar (ACM-SIAM on
discrete algorithms. ‘99)
[12] Wavelength Conversion in WDM networking: B. Ramamurthy and B. Mukherjee (IEEE Selected
Areas in Communications Sept ’98)
[13] Combining MPLS Traffic Engineering Control With Optical Crossconnects: Daniel O. Awduche
[UUNET(MCI World Com)], Yakov Rekhter [Cisco Systems], John Drake [Fore Systems(Marconi)],
Rob Coltun [Siara Systems], October 1999
[14] All-Optical WDM Multi-Rings with Differentiated QoS: Marco Ajmone Marsan, Andrea Bianco,
Alessandro Morabito, and Fabio Neri. Politecnico di Torino (IEEE Communications Feb’99)
[15] Light-Trees- Optical Multicasting for improved Performance in Wavelength-Routed Networks:
Laxman H. Sahasrabuddhe and Biswanath Mukherjee (IEEE Communications Feb ’99)
[16] Developments in Wavelength Division Multiple Access Networking: John M. Senior, Michael
R.Handley, Mark S. Leeson (IEEE Communications Dec ’98)
Books:
[i] Fibre-Optic Networks: P.E.Green (Prentice-Hall 1993)
[ii] Fibre-Optic Communications: Gerard Lachs (McGraw-Hill Telecommunications 1998)
[iii] Optical Fibre Communications: Gerd Keiser (McGraw-Hill 1983)