Performance engineering and topological design of Metro WDM optical networks using computer simulation

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 149-165

  Antoniades, Neophytos ^a,b   Boskovic, Aleksandra ^b   Tomkos, Ioannis ^b   Madamopoulos, Nicholas ^a,b   Lee, Mirim ^a,b   Roudas, Ioannis ^b   Pastel, David ^b   Sharma, Manish ^b   Yadlowsky, Michael J ^b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b Corning Inc ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Computer simulation; Optical networks; Q budgeting; Transport layer impairments; WDM

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIER NOISE; COMPONENT RIPPLE; OPTICAL NETWORKS; WAVEFORM DISTORTION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CROSSTALK; DISTORTION (WAVES); FIBER OPTIC NETWORKS; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; OPTICAL FILTERS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

METROPOLITAN AREA NETWORKS;

EID: 0036170994     PISSN: 07338716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/49.974669     Document Type: Article

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