EE 693F Optical Networks: Lecture Information

The series of lectures are partially listed below. It will be updated as the semester progresses.

The lecture information includes lecture notes for the course in pdf form.

Lectures

Course Organization

• Description: Class organization.
• Dates: 1/13 (mon)

Introduction

• Description: Overview of the material covered in this course. The course will focus on wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) technology.
• Dates: (2 lectures) 1/13 (mon) and 1/15 (wed)
• Required reading: Textbook Chapter 1.
• Homework assignments: None
• Lecture notes in pdf: [1/13]

Technology

• Description: This covers the basic theory of optical signal propagation through optical fiber. Undergraduate electro-magnetic theory background is helpful here.
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• Required reading: Textbook Chapter 2.
• Homework assignments:
• Lecture notes in pdf:
  • [Jan 15 & 22: Sec. 2.1-2.2],
  • [Jan 22 & 27: Sec. 2.3],
  • [Jan 27: Sec. 2.4-2.5]

Components

• Description: In this part of the course, we discuss how to use technologies to manipulate optical signal phenomena (covered in Chapter 2) to create useful communication devices.
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• Lecture notes (pdf):
  • [Sec. 3.1-3.3.5]
  • [Sec. 3.3.6-3.4.3]
  • [Sec. 3.4.4-3.5, but this will be updated]
  • [Sec. 3.6-3.8]

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Modulation and Demodulation

• Description: Here we will discuss how optical signals are sent and received on a line system. This involves signal formats, different noise sources, and how to deal with noise.
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Transmission System Engineering

• Description: This will cover the challenges and solutions to building WDM line systems.
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First Generation Optical Networks

• Description: This is where we begin discussing networking. First generation optical networks switch data streams electronically, as we do today. We will discuss current network systems that use optical line systems. We wil cover SONET/SDH and Fiber Channel, and briefly cover ESCON, HIPPI, FDDI, ATM, and IP.
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Local Area and Access Networks

• Description: Local area and access networks are related because they either access a hub or share common communication channels. In addition, they usually cover short to moderate distances.
• Dates: (2 lectures)
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Second Generation Optical Networks

• Description: We will focus on network architectures proposed for wide area and metropolitan area networks. We will cover some performance modeling and optimization algorithms.
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Control and Management

• Description: Different management issues will be covered, but a bulk of the time will on protection and recovery from failures. In particular, SONET/SDH type of protection will be covered.
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Photonic Packet Switching

• Description: We will discuss optical packet switching architectures including Optical Burst Switching. We will discuss the constraints to implement packet switching.
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Optical Networks and the Internet

• Description: We will spend around 4 lectures on the topic of the Internet Protocol (IP) and optical networks. Currently, my plan is to cover Generalized MPLS in two lectures, Resilient Packet Rings in one lecture, and Constrained Label Distribution Protocol (CR LDP) in another lecture. But this can change.
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