ECS 259: Optical Communication Networks -- Spring Quarter 2007

UC Davis, Department of Computer Science

Homeworks

Lectures

6:10 pm to 7:30 pm, Tuesday and Thursday, Room 80 Social Sciences Bldg.

Slides:

Instructor

Biswanath Mukherjee, Child Family Professor, Department of Computer Science

mukherje AT cs dot ucdavis dot edu

Textbook

B. Mukherjee, ``Optical WDM Networks,'' Springer, 2006.

(Part of Springer's Optical Networks Book Series; Series Editor: Biswanath Mukherjee)

References

General References

Light Reading (http://www.lightreading.com).
Various Light Reading White Papers: e.g., on
- Telecom Carrier Needs
- All-Optical Switching: Part 1, Part 2
- Passive Optical Networks (Access Networks)
- Metropolitan Optical Networks
- Automated Bandwidth Provisioning
- etc. (other references to be added, as needed)

Lecture-by-Lecture References (Tentative)

Lectures for Week #1
- Telecom Carrier Needs
- B. Mukherjee, ``R&D Priorities and Challenges for Optical Networking: Migrating Theory to Practice,'' (Preprint), May 8, 2002.
- B. Mukherjee, ``WDM Optical Networks: Progress and Challenges,'' (Invited Paper), IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (Special Issue on "PROTOCOLS AND ARCHITECTURES FOR NEXT GENERATION OPTICAL WDM NETWORKS"), vol. 18, no. 10, pp. 1810-1824, Oct. 2000.
Lectures for Week #2
- All-Optical Switching: Part 1, Part 2
Lectures for Week #4
- G. Kramer, B. Mukherjee, and A. Maislos, Ethernet Passive Optical Networks, In S. Dixit, editor, Multiprotocol over DWDM: Building the Next Generation Optical Internet. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., December 2002.
- A. Banerjee, Y. Park, F. Clarke, H. Song, S. Yang, G. Kramer, K. Kim, and B. Mukherjee, ``WAVELENGTH-DIVISION MULTIPLEXED PASSIVE OPTICAL NETWORK (WDM-PON) TECHNOLOGIES FOR BROADBAND ACCESS: A REVIEW [INVITED],'' OSA Journal of Optical Networking, vol. 4, no. 11, pp. 737-758, Nov. 2005.
- Passive Optical Networks (Access Networks)
- Metropolitan Optical Networks
- J. Wang, W. Cho, V. R. Vemuri, and B. Mukherjee, ``Improved approaches for cost-effective traffic grooming in WDM ring networks: ILP formulations, single-hop and multihop connections," IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology, vol. 19, no. 11, pp. 1645-1653, Nov. 2001.
- J. Wang and B. Mukherjee, ``Interconnected WDM Ring Networks: Strategies for Interconnection and Traffic Grooming," Optical Networks Magazine, vol. 3, no. 5, Sept./Oct. 2002.
- K. Zhu and B. Mukherjee, ``A Review of Traffic Grooming in WDM Optical Networks: Architectures and Challenges," Optical Networks Magazine, 2003.
Lectures for Week #5-6
- H. Zang, J. P. Jue, and B. Mukherjee, ``A Review of Routing and Wavelength Assignment Approaches for Wavelength-Routed Optical WDM Networks,'' SPIE/Baltzer Optical Networks Magazine (ONM), vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 47-60, Jan. 2000.
- A. Gencata and B. Mukherjee, ``Virtual-Topology Adaptation for WDM Mesh Networks Under Dynamic Traffic,'' IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol. 11, no. 2, pp. , April 2003.
Lectures for Week #7
- S. Ramamurthy, L. Sahasrabuddhe, and B. Mukherjee, ``Survivable WDM Mesh Networks,'' IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology, vol. 21, no. 4, pp. 870-883, April 2003. (Based on ``Survivable WDM Mesh Networks, Part I -- Protection,'' Proc., IEEE Infocom '99, New York, pp. 744-751, March 1999; and ``Part II -- Restoration,'' Proc., IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC '99), Vancouver, Canada, pp. 2023-2030, June 1999.)
- J. Zhang and B. Mukherjee, ``Review of Fault Management in WDM Mesh Networks: Basic Concepts and Research Challenges,'' IEEE Network, Special Issue on "Protection, Restoration, and Disaster Recovery", vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 41-48, March 2004.
- J. Wang, L. Sahasrabuddhe, and B. Mukherjee, ``Path vs. Sub-Path vs. Link Restoration for Fault Management in IP-over-WDM Networks: Performance Comparisons Using GMPLS Control Signaling,'' IEEE Communications Magazine, Nov. 2002.
Lectures for Week #8
- K. Zhu and B. Mukherjee, ``Traffic Grooming in an Optical WDM Mesh Network,'' IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 20, no. 1, pp. 122-133, January 2002.
- K. Zhu, H. Zang, and B. Mukherjee, ``A comprehensive study on next-generation optical grooming switches,'' IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 21, no. 7, pp. 1173-1186, Sept. 2003.
- H. Zhu, H. Zang, K. Zhu, and B. Mukherjee, ``A Novel Generic Graph Model for Traffic Grooming in Heterogeneous WDM Mesh Networks,'' IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 285-299, April 2003.
Lectures for Week #9
- H. Zang, J. P. Jue, L. Sahasrabuddhe, S. Ramamurthy, and B. Mukherjee, ``Dynamic Lightpath Establishment in Wavelength-Routed WDM Networks,'' IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 39, no. 9, pp. 100-108, Sept. 2001.
- H. Zang and B. Mukherjee, ``Connection Management for Survivable Wavelength-Routed WDM Mesh Networks,'' SPIE Optical Networks Magazine, Special Issue on Protection and Survivability in Optical Networks, vol. 2, no. 4, pp. 17-28, July 2001.
Lectures for Week #10
- S. Yao, S. Dixit, and B. Mukherjee, ``Advances in photonic packet switching: An overview,'' IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 38, no. 2, pp. 84-94, Feb. 2000.

Prerequisite

ECS 152 / ECS 152A or equivalent
(or "graduate standing" with reasonable understanding of two out of the following three topics can be considered adequate as well: probability, computer architecture, digital communication)

Basis for Grading

1) Approx. 4 Homework Assignments (1/3)
2) Project (1/3)
3) Final Exam (1/3)

Course Outline

Catalog Description

Optical networks. Enabling technologies. Multiplexing techniques. WDM. Broadcast networks. Optical access networks. Metropolitan optical networks. Wavelength-routed networks. Network architectures. Protocols. Network algorithms. Device-network interface. Optimization problems. Fault-management techniques. Traffic grooming. Network control and management. Optical burst-switched networks. Optical packet-switched networks.

Goals

Research and development on optical communication networks have matured significantly over the past few years so that many of the design principles for these networks are moving from the research laboratories to the formal (graduate) classroom setting. Increasing interest on this topic is also occuring in the telecom industry because of the need for very high-bandwidth access and backbone networks. The most unique feature of this course is its timeliness on an important and emerging networking topic. This course will better prepare our graduate students not only to undertake research in this area but also to handle industry jobs on this topic.

Expanded Course Description

Tentative Lecture Schedule

Lectures for Week #1: Ch. 1. Optical Communication Networks: Principles and Challenges

Lectures for Week #2: Ch. 2. Enabling Technologies

Lectures for Week #3: Chs. 3-4. Broadcast (Local) Networks: Single-Hop Networks; Multihop Networks; Channel-Sharing and Multicasting

Lectures for Week #4: Chs. 5-6. Optical access networks (passive optical networks (PONs); Metro Optical Networks

Lectures for Week #5: Chs. 7-8. Switched (Wavelength-Routed) Networks: Virtual Topology Design

Lectures for Week #6: Chs. 9-10. Routing and Wavelength Assignment (RWA); and Wavelength Conversion

Lectures for Week #7: Chs. 11-12. Fault Management; Light-Trees (optical multicasting)

Lectures for Week #8: Chs. 13-14. Traffic Grooming

Lectures for Week #9: Chs. 15-16. Impairment-Aware Routing; Network Control and Management

Lectures for Week #10: Chs. 17-18. OPS Networks; OBS Networks

Projects

Interested students please discuss with Instructor.

Resources (UG Networking Courses at UC Davis)

ECS 152A In Brief | Detailed Outline
ECS 152B In Brief | Detailed Outline

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Last updated: April 4, 2007