WDM Systems and Networks

1. Modeling, Simulation, Design and Engineering of WDM Systems and Networks: An Introduction
Georgios Ellinas, Neophytos (Neo) Antoniades, Ioannis Roudas

2. Computer Modeling of Transport Layer Effects
André Richter

3. State-of-the-Art in Device and Network Element Level Modeling
Ramón Gutiérrez-Castrejón

4. Semianalytical Models for Network Performance Evaluation
Ronald Holzlöhner, Oleg V. Sinkin, Vladimir S. Grigoryan

5. Commercial Optical Communication Software Simulation Tools
Dwight H. Richards

6. Optical Interconnects
Nicholas Madamopoulos

7. Short Range (in-building) Systems and Networks: A Chance for Plastic Optical Fibers
María Angeles Losada, Javier Mateo

8. WDM Phase-Modulated Millimeter-Wave Fiber Systems
Xianbin Yu, Kamau Prince, Timothy B. Gibbon, Idelfonso T. Monroy

9. Fiber to the Home Through Passive Optical Networks
Alicia López, Noemí Merayo, Juan José Martínez, Patricia Fernández

10. Coherent Optical Communication Systems
Ioannis Roudas

11. Design Process for Terrestrial and Undersea DWDM Network Upgrades
Sergey Burtsev

12. Impairment-Aware Optical Networking: A Survey
Siamak Azodolmolky, Marianna Angelou, Ioannis Tomkos, Tania Panayiotou, Georgios Ellinas, Neophytos (Neo) Antoniades

13. Provisioning and Survivability in Multi-Domain Optical Networks
Nasir Ghani, Min Peng, Ammar Rayes

14. Future Directions in WDM Systems and Networks
Georgios Ellinas, Neophytos (Neo) Antoniades, Ioannis Roudas

Keywords: Engineering, Microwaves, RF and Optical Engineering, Communications Engineering, Networks, Signal, Image and Speech Processing