Multiwavelength Optical Networks: A Layered Approach

Anticipating the imminent commercial deployment of the technology, Stern (electrical engineering, Columbia U.) and Bala, who manages a network networking company, explore wide-area wavelength-division multiplexing. They present four architecture categories in increasing order of complexity: shared channel networks, wavelength-routed networks, linear lightwave networks, and hybrid networks that are logically routed. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Thomas E. Stern holds the Dicker Chair in Electrical Engineering at Columbia University. He has served in various leadership roles at Columbia, including department chair, technical director of the Center for Telecommunications Research, and leader of the CTR Lightwave Networks Research Group. Professor Stern is an IEEE Fellow, holds several patents, and has authored more than a hundred papers on networking and related topics.

Balachander Krishnamurthyof AT&T Labs Research is a well-known researcher with over a score of publications in the World Wide Web and networking fields alone. He has given tutorials on the Web at several conferences, published over 45 technical papers, co-authored and edited 'Practical Reusable UNIX Software' and was the series editor for the 'Trends in Software' series of books. He holds several patents and has given invited talks in over thirty countries. His recent papers can be found in research.att/~bala/papers.

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