I have come across most of these books, in thecourse of my undergraduate and graduate studies and research work. Here is a reference list. I have also maintained links to Amazon website for all of these books. Since Amazon continously updates its website, therefore some of these links may be outdated.
Areas
AlgorithmsComputer Networks
Optical Networks
Commmunications Engineering
Analog/Digital Electronics and Computer Architecture
Systems
Circuits
Basic Sciences
Algorithms
Computer Networks
Computer Networks, Fourth Edition by Andrew S. Tanenbaum published by McGrawHill.
Optical Networks
Optical Communication Networks by Biswanath Mukherjee.
Optical Networks: A Practical Perspective (Second Edition) by Rajiv Ramaswami, Kumar Sivarajan
Communications Engineering
Communications Systems by Simon Haykin.
Digital Communications by John G. Proakis.
Signals and Systems (2nd Edition) by Alan V. Oppenheim, Alan S. Willsky, S. Hamid Nawab.
Analog/Digital Electronics and Computer Architecture
Digital Integrated Electronics by Herbert Taub and Donald Schilling, published by McgrawHill.
Computer System Architecture (3rd Edition) by M. Morris Mano.
Systems
Circuit design
Network Analysis and Synthesis by Franklin F. Kuo
Basic Sciences
Advanced Engineering Mathematics by Erwin Kreyszig.
Engineering Mechanics: Statics and Dynamics (4th Edition) by Irving H. Shames.
Introduction to Electrodynamics (3rd Edition) by David J. Griffiths.
Organic Chemistry (6th Edition) by Robert T. Morrison (Author) and Robert N. Boyd (Author).
Problems in General Physics by Igor' Evgne'Evich Irodov.
Important References to Technical/ Journal Papers
Mathematical Applications
A tutorial on Hidden Markov Models and Selected Applications for Speech Recognition, Lawrence R. Rabiner, Proceedings of the IEEE, Vol. 77, No. 2, February 1989
SDH/SONET
Generic Framing Procedure and data over SONET/SDH , IEEE Communications Magazine, May 2002, Vol. 40, No. 5. Many articles on the Generic Framic Procedure may be found in the same journal.
Passive Optical Networks
Ethernet Passive Optical Network(EPON): Building a next generation optical access Network, Glen Kramer and Gary Pesavento, IEEE Communications Magazine, February 2002, Vol. 40, No. 2
IPACT: A dynamic Protocol for an Ethernet PON (EPON), Glen Kramer, Biswanath and Gerry Pesavento, IEEE Communications Magazine, February 2002, Vol. 40, No. 2
Deployment Status and Common technical Specifications for a B-PON System, IEEE Communications Magazine, December 2001
Advances in Broadband Passive Optical Networking Technologies, IEEE Communications Magazine, December 2001
Protocols of WDM Networks
JumpStart: A just in time signaling architecture for WDM burst Switch Networks, Ilia baldine, George Rouskas, Harry Perros and Dane Stevenson, IEEE Communications Magazine, February 2002, Vol. 40, No. 2
Control Plane design for Reliable Optical Networks, Guanggzhi Li, Jennifer Yates, Dongmei Wang and Charles Kalamnek, IEEE Communications Magazine, February 2002, Vol. 40, No. 2
Multiconfiguration Multihop Protocols: A new Class of protocols for packet switched WDM Optical Networks, Jason Jue and Biswanath Mukherjee, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol. 8, No. 5, May 2000
Protection in WDM Networks
A framework for service guranteed shared protection in WDM mesh networks, Pin-Han Ho and Hussein T. Moutfah, IEEE Communications Magazine, February 2002, Vol. 40, No. 2
Error Monitoring for Optical Metropolitian Network Services, Eugene Park, IEEE ..Communications Magazine, February 2002, Vol. 40, No. 2
An Efficient Algorithm for Locating Soft and Hard Failures in WDM Networks, Carmen Mas and Patrick Thiran, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communication, Vol.18, No. 10, October 2000
Topology design and wavelength assignment in WDM Networks
Logically Rearrangable Multihop Lightwave Networks, Jean-Farncois P. Labourdette and Anthony Acampora, IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 39, No. 8, August 1991.
WDM – based local lightwave networks – Part I:Single Hop Systems", IEEE Networks Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 3, May 1992
WDM – based local lightwave networks – Part II:Multihop Systems", IEEE Networks Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 4, July 1992
All-Optical Networks with Sparse Wavelength Conversion, Suresh Subramanium, Murat Azizoglu and Arun Somani, IEEE/ACM transactions on Networking, Vol. 4, No. 4, August 1996.
A Practical Approach for Routing and Wavelength Assignment in Large Wavelength Routed Optical Networks, Dhirtiman Banerjee and Biswanath Mukherjee, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Vol 14, No. 5, June 1996
A Path Decomposition Approach for Computing Blocking Probabilities in Wavelength-Routing Networks, Yuhong Zhu, Georhe Rouskas, Harry Perros, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol, 8, No. 6, December 2000
Effects of Wavelength Routing and Selection algorithms on Wavelength Conversion Gain in WDM Optical Networks, Erhan Karazan and Ender Ayanogle, IEEE/ ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol. 6, No. 2, April 1996.
Lightpath Wavelength routing in Large WDM Networks, Imricj Chlamtac, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communication, Vol. 14, No. 5, June 1996.
Virtual Topology Adaptation for WDM Mesh Networks under Dynamic Traffic, Aysegul Gencata and Biswanath Mukherjee, IEEE Infocom, 2002
Optimization of Wavelength Assignment for QOS Multicast in WDM Networks, Xiao Hua Jia, Ding-Zhu Du, Xiao-Dong Hu, Man-Kei Lee and Jun Gu, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communication, Vol. 49, No. 2, February 2001.
Dynamic Traffic Establishment in Wavelength Routed WDM Networks, Hui Zang, Jason Jue, Laxman Sahasrabuddhe, Ramu Ramumurthy, Biswanath Mukherjee. IEEE Communications Magazine, September 2001
Wavelength Routed Optical Networks : Linear Formulation, Resource Budgeting tradeoffs and a Reconfiguration study, Dhirtiman Banerjee and Biswanath Mujherjee, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol. 8, No. 5, October 2000
Capacity Allocation and Contention Resolution in a photonic Slot Routing All Optical WDM Mesh Network, Hui Zang, Jason Jue, Biswanath Mukherjee, Journal of Lightwave Technology, Vol 18, No. 12, December 2000.
General topics in WDM Networks
A Wideband All Optical WDM Network, Invited Paper, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Vol 14, No. 5, June 1996
Optical Networking Update, Paul E. Green, Invited Paper, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communication, Vol.15, No. 5, June 1996
WDM Optical Communication Networks: Progress and Challenges, Biswanath Mukherjee, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communication, Vol.18, No. 10, October 2000
Optical componenets for WDM Lightwave Networks, Michael Borella, Jason Jue, Dhirtiman Banerjee, Byrav Ramamurthy and Biswanath Mukherjee, Proceedings of the IEEE, Vol. 85, No. 8, August 1997
ATM Passive Optical Networks and Integrated VDSL, Ian Cooper, Mick Bramhall, IEEE Communications Magazine, March 2000
WDM Based Packet Networks Eytan Modiano, IEEE Communications Magazine March 1999
On the cost of Virtual Private Networks, Reuven Cohen, IEEE Transactions on Networking, Vol. 8, No. 6, December 2000
Multicast in WDM Networks
Multicast Routing Algorithms and Protocols: A tutorial, Laxman H. Sahasrabuddhe and Biswanath Mukherjee, IEEE Network Magazine, Jan-Feb 2000
Light trees: Optical Multicasting for Improved Performance in Wavelength Routed Networks, Laxman H. Sahasrabuddhe and Biswanath Mukherjee, IEEE Communications Magazine, February 1999
Traffic Grooming in WDM Networks
Traffic Grooming in an Optical WDM Mesh Network, Keyao Zhu and Biswanath Mukherjee, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communication, Vol.20, No. 1, January 2002
Grooming of Arbitrary Traffic in SONET/WDM BLSRs, Peng-Jun Wan, Grucia Calinescu, Liwu Liu and Ophir Frieder, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communication, Vol.18, No. 10, October 2000
Traffic Grooming in WDM Networks, Eytan Modiano , Philip J. Lin, IEEE Communications Magazine, July 2001
Traffic Grooming in WDM Networks: Past and Future, Rudra Dutta and George Rouskas, Department of Computer Science, North Carolina State University, Raleugh, NC 27695
Improved Approaches for Cost Effective Traffic Grooming in WDM Ring Networks: ILP Formulations and Single Hop and Multihop Connections, Jian Wang, Wanhang Cho, V. rao Vemuri and Biswanath Mukherjee, Journal Of Lightwave Technology, Vol. 19, No. 11, November 2001
On Optimal Traffic Grooming in WDM Rings, Rudra Dutta and George Rouskas, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communication, Vol.20, No. 1, January 2002
Reducing Electronic Multiplexing Costs in SONET/WDM Rings with Dynamically Changing Traffic, Randal Berry and Eytan Modiano, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communication, Vol.18, No. 10, October 2000
Topics in Multimedia
Data Resouce Selection in Distributed Visual Information Systems, Wendy Chang, Gholamhosein Sheijholesami, Jia Wang and Aidong Zhang, IEEE Transactions in Knowledge and Data Engineering, Vol. 10, No. 6, December 1998
Supporting Ranked Boolean Similiarity Queries in MARS, Michael Ortega, Yong Ruim Kaushik Chajraborty, Kriengkrai Porkaew, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering.
A Media Synchronization Survey: reference Model, Specifcation, and Case Studies, Gerold Blakowski and Ralf Steinmetz, IEEE Journal in Selected Areas in Communications, Vol. 14, No. 1, Jaunary 1996.
Contect-Based, Adaptive, Lossless Image Coding, Xiaoli Wu and Nasir Menon, IEEE transactions on Communications, april 1997.
Miscelleaneous in Wireless Communication
Mobile frequency – Hopping CDMA Systems , Don Torrieri, IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol.48, No. 10, August 2000
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