Mesh-Based Survivable Networks: Options and Strategies for Optical, Mpls, Sonet, and Atm Networking - Hardcover

Grover, Wayne D.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 013494576X ISBN 13: 9780134945767

Publisher: Prentice Hall, 2003

Synopsis

Also of interest to practicing network designers, this graduate engineering textbook reviews IP and optical technologies, routing algorithms, graph theory, and network flow problems, then introduces methods for designing survivable optical transport networks. Grover (University of Alberta) explores span protection and restoration, path restoration, oversubscription-based capacity design, dual failure issues, mesh network topology, p-cycles, and ring to mesh evolution. Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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About the Author

WAYNE D. GROVER is Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Alberta; Fellow of the IEEE; Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada, NSERC Steacie Fellow, and Chief Scientist (Network Systems) for TRLabs. He has 25 years experience in telecom R&D, and is internationally recognized for his contributions to self-organizing and survivable network design, fiber optic transmission systems design, and high-speed synchronization. His current research focuses on the design and performance of broadband digital and optical transport networks based on DWDM, SONET/SDH, ATM and IP/MPLS.

From the Back Cover

Next-generation architectures for survivable networks.

"Always on" information networks must automatically reroute around virtually any problem-but conventional, redundant ring architectures are too inefficient and inflexible. The solution: mesh-based networks that will be just as survivable-and far more flexible and cost-effective. Drawing heavily on the latest research, Wayne D. Grover introduces radical new concepts essential for deploying mesh-based networks. Grover offers "how-to" guidance on everything from logical design to operational strategy and evolution planning-including unprecedented insight into migration from ring topologies and the important new concept of p-cycles.

• Mesh survivability: realities and common misunderstandings
• Basic span- and path-restoration concepts and techniques
• Logical design: modularity, non-linear cost structures, express-route optimization, and dual-failure considerations
• Operational aspects of real-time restoration and self-organizing pre-planning against failures
• The "transport-stabilized Internet": self-organizing reactions to failure and unforeseen demand patterns
• Leveraging controlled oversubscription of capacity upon restoration in IP networks
• "Forcers": a new way to analyze the capacity structure of mesh-restorable networks
• New techniques for evolving facility-route structures in mesh-restorable networks
• p-Cycles: combining the simplicity and switching speed of ring networks with the efficiency of mesh networks
• Novel Working Capacity Envelope concept for simplified dynamic demand provisioning
• Dual-failure restorability and the availability of mesh networks

This is the definitive guide to mesh-based networking for every system engineer, network planner, product manager, researcher and graduate student in optical networking.

Extensive Web-based Appendices and Supplements

Contains new resources for designing and analyzing mesh-based survivable networks, including AMPL models, software, course notes, presentations, network libraries, student problems and suggested research projects.

Edition details

• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 013494576X
• ISBN 13: 9780134945767
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 300