Prentice Hall Mesh-based Survivable Transport Networks: Options and Strategies for Optical, MPLS, SONET and ATM Networking

Mesh-based survivability offers many advantages, but the research, educational and perational communications communities need to absorb new concepts and ideas about network operation; letting the network self-organize its own logical configuration for example. Operators also need to understand, evaluate and adopt new methods and models for network design and planning. This book is designed to contribute to enabling this evolution towards mesh-based survivable networking. 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. 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, IP/MPLS, and GMPLS.