GLOBECOM 2005 Tutorial

Monday, 28 November
Majestic Ballroom B / Level Two / Renaissance Grand Hotel

Title:   TU 06 Traffic Analysis for Network Security

Duration: Half Day/2:00pm-5:00pm

Instructor: Tom Chen, Southern Methodist University, USA

Abstract:
As communication needs evolve, the current optical network requires both synchronous and asynchronous traffic with enhanced efficiently, scalability, protection strategies, and performance-cost objectives. The next generation optical network is based on DWDM technology and is designed on new standard protocols to efficiently address these requirements. This network may be viewed as an amalgamation of the best concepts from legacy synchronous and asynchronous networks, adding to it new concepts that enhance network attributes including efficiency-cost.

This short course starts with a review of critical optical network topologies, the SONET/SDH standard and DWDM technology. It describes the next generation SONET/SDH, Data-over-SONET/SDH, Packet-over-SONET/SDH, error handling, protection switching, the Link Capacity Adjustment Scheme (LCAS), the Generalized Framing Procedure (GFP), the Link Access Procedure for SDH (LAPS), Internet and Ethernet over SONET/SDH, Virtual Concatenation (VC), Multi-Service Switching Platform (MSSP), Multi-Service Provisioning Platform (MSPP), Next Generation SONET/SDH over DWDM, as well as the Optical Transport Network (OTN). This course is supported by notes and optionally by four books authored by the instructor (published by IEEE/Wiley): "Next generation SONET/SDH" (2004), "Understanding SONET/SDH and ATM" (1999), "Introduction to DWDM Technology" (2001), and "DWDM: Networks, Devices and Technology" (2003).

Motivation:
It provides a synopsis of those protocols that are needed to understand the next generation optical network. Therefore, this tutorial becomes attractive to those that have a need for an overview of the next generation optical network, including managers, communications engineers, communications management and control, and network modeling.