The continuing growth in Internet services and the associated
bandwidth consumption presents many challenges to be met at the
network tiers. The deployment of a fiber-optic local network is
important because as soon as it is in place, it provides broadband
access to the Internet cloud. In this book, such architecture is
envisioned to be moderate in costs and complexity through sharing
of resources, simplified nodes at the user-side, and centralized
network management. The provisioning of wireless networks and,
consequently, the handling of mobile networking dynamics is
considered to be essential to enable truly ubiquitous networking
possibilities so the convergence of the optical and the radio
domains has a central position in the book. The optical code
division multiple access (OCDMA) technology serves as basis on top
of which many networking concepts are evaluated. A unique insight
is given in the complete trajectory of OCDMA system design from
modeling, to photonic integration, until full-scale transmission
experiments. This book is intended for (under-) graduate students
and system designers in the area of fiber-optic local networks.
