EC60082: Lightwave Networks
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| Course name | Lightwave Networks | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Offered by | Electronics & Electrical Communication Engineering | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Credits | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| L-T-P | 3-1-0 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Semester | Spring | ||||||||||||||||||||
Syllabus[edit | edit source]
Syllabus mentioned in ERP[edit | edit source]
Pre-requisites: EC61103Evolution of optical networking: long-haul point-topoint terrestrial and transoceanic links, LAN and broadband access segments; Fibre optic LANs: Suitable topologies and MAC protocols, FDDI, DQDB, Gigabit Ethernet; Fibre optic SANs: ESCON, Fibre channel, HIPPI; Review of SONET/SDH and concepts of networking using IP-over-ATM-over-SONET/SDH architecture; WDM networks: Elements of WDM networks â Optical line terminals, Optical line amplifiers, Optical add/drop multiplexers (OADMs), Reconfigurable OADMs, Optical crossconnects; WDM backbone networks: Concepts of wavelength routing and lightpaths, Lightpath topology design, Routing and wavelength assignment, LP-based optimum design and heuristic algorithms, Wavelength conversion, Traffic grooming in wavelength-routed backbones; IP-over-WDM and GMPLS; Survivable optical networks: Protection in SONET/SDH, Protection in WDM backbone networks - dedicated and shared schemes; Optical access networks: Hybrid fiber coax (HFC), Enhanced HFC, Fibre to the curb, Passive optical networks; Optical burst switching: Concepts of offset time and just-enough time (JET) switching, node architectures. Optical CDMA: Basic concept and applications.