Performance of WDM transport networks

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 1081-1096

  Karasan, Ezhan ^a,b,c   Ayanoglu, Ender ^{a,c,d,e,f,g,h}  

^a IEEE   (Japan)

^b AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

^c BILKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^d LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^e MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^f STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g Bell Labs ^*

^h Bilkent University ^*

Author keywords

All optical networks; Communication routing; Network restoration; Transparent optical networks; Wavelength conversion; Wavelength division multiplexing

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

TRANSPARENT OPTICAL NETWORKS;

FIBER OPTIC NETWORKS;

EID: 0032157521     PISSN: 07338716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/49.725180     Document Type: Article

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