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Optical Networks provides a comprehensive all-in-one text for beginning graduate as well as final-year undergraduate students, and also serves well for R&D engineers to quickly refresh the basics and then move on to emerging topics.
List of contents
- 1: Optical Networks: An Overview
- 2: Technologies for Optical Networks
- 3: Optical Local/Metrpolitan-Area Networks
- 4: Optical Access Networks
- 5: SONET/SDH, OTN and RPR
- 6: WDM Local-Area Networks
- 7: WDM Access Networks
- 8: WDM Metro Networks
- 9: WDM Long-Haul Networks
- 10: Transmission Impairments and Power Consumption in Optical Networks
- 11: Survivability of Optical Networks
- 12: Optical Network Control and Management
- 13: Datacenter Networks
- 14: Elastic Optical Networks
- 15: Optical Packet and Burst-Switched Networks
About the author
Professor Debasish Datta served in the faculty of Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur for over 37 years till 2017. He visited several overseas universities including Stanford University, University of California at Davis, Chonbuk National University, South Korea, and University of Malaya. He served as a Guest Editor for IEEE JSAC for the special Issue on WDM-based Network Architectures and served on the Editorial Boards of IEEE Communication Surveys and Tutorials and Elsevier Journal of Optical Switching and Networking. Currently, he is engaged in mentoring researchers in the area of optical networks as a visiting professor at various Indian universities.
Summary
Optical Networks provides a comprehensive all-in-one text for beginning graduate as well as final-year undergraduate students, and also serves well for R&D engineers to quickly refresh the basics and then move on to emerging topics.
Additional text
Current and forward looking, with a systematic overview of the evolution of optical networks.
