EC1401 OPTICAL COMMUNICATION AND NETWORKS

Mrs.F.AROKIA MAGDALINE LECT/ECE

OBJECTIVE:
To learn the components of optical Netwoks
To understand the concepts of second generation

networks To learn the concepts of broadcast and select Networks, wavelength routing & high capacity networks

UNIT I
OPTICAL NETWORKING COMPONENTS
First Generation Optical

Networks Second Generation Optical Networks Couplers Isolators & Circulators Multiplexers & Filters Amplifiers Switches 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 Multi-hop

Shufflenet multi-hop

network Media Access control protocols Test beds

UNIT IV WAVELENGTH ROUTING NETWORKS

Node design
Issues in network design

and operation Optical layer cost tradeoffs Routing and wavelength 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

TEXT BOOKS
1. Rajiv, Ramaswami and

Kumar Sivarajan, Optical Networks: A practical perspective, 2nd Edition, Morgan Kaufmann, 2001. 2. Keiser G., Optical fiber communication systems, McGraw-Hill, 2000.

REFERENCES

1. Vivek Alwayn, Optical

Network Design and Implementation, Pearson Education, 2004. 2. Hussein T. Mouftab and Pin-Han Ho, Optical Networks: Architecture and Survivability, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002.

SEMINAR TOPICS
Isolators
Circulators Layers

Single-hop
Optical layer cost

tradeoffs Broadcast networks

ASSIGNMENT TOPICS
Wavelength

Converters Ring architectures Synchronization Media Access control protocols OTDM test beds