ECY008 OPTICAL COMMUNICATION NETWORKS
UNIT I OPTICAL NETWORKING COMPONENTS
First- and second-generation optical networks, Components: couplers, isolators, circulators,multiplexers, filters, amplifiers, switches, and wavelength converters.
UNIT II SONET AND SDH NETWORKS
Integration of TDM signals, Layers, Framing, Transport overhead, Alarms, Multiplexing, Network elements, Topologies, Protection architectures, Ring architectures, Network Management.
UNIT III BROADCAST – AND- SELECT NETWORKS
Topologies, Single-hop, Multihop, and Shufflenet multihop networks, Media-Access control protocols, Test beds.
UNIT IV WAVELENGTH-ROUTING NETWORKS
Node designs, Issues in Network design and operation, Optical layer cost Tradeoffs, Routing andWavelength assignment, Wavelength routing test beds.
UNIT V HIGH CAPACITY NETWORKS
SDM, TDM, and WDM approaches, Application areas, Optical TDM Networks: Multiplexing and demultiplexing, Synchronization, Broadcast networks, Switch-based networks, OTDM test beds.
REFERENCES:
1. Rajiv Ramaswami and Kumar Sivarajan, Optical Networks: A practical perspective, Morgan Kaufmann, 2nd edition, 2001.
2. Vivek Alwayn, Optical Network Design and Implementation, Pearson Education, 2004.
3. Hussein T.Mouftab and Pin-Han Ho, Optical Networks: Architecture and Survivability, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002.
4. Biswanath Mukherjee, Optical Communication Networks, McGraw Hill, 1997.