Lecture Notes:

• Introduction to Optical Networks
• WDM Optical Networks
  Optical Line terminals, optical line Amplifiers, Optical Add-Drop multiplexers (OADM), Optical Crossconnects (OXC).
• IP over WDM
  Layering in in IPoverWDM, Multi-protocol label switching and GMPLS, prtection in IP over WDM networks
• Signalling in optical networks
  Label distribution protocol, LDP messages, signallign in GMPLS, RSVP-TE
• Optical Burst Switching
  Burst Assemmbly algorithms, Signalling and Routing protocols, Contention resolution Algorithms, TCP over OBS
• Broadband Access Networks
  Passive Optical Networks, HFC, Fiber to the Home/Curb
• Metropolitan Optical Networks
  Traffic aggregation in SONET rings,, Single-hop, multi-hop and fynamic grooming in SONET WDM ring
• Traffic Aggregation
  Static and dynamic traffic aggregation
  

Literature:

• Optical WDM Networks Mukherjee, Biswanath
• Optical Networks: A Practical Perspective (Second Edition) - Rajiv Ramaswami, Kumar Sivarajan.
• Optical Burst Switched Networks - Jue, Jason P., Vokkarane, Vinod M.