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1 Modeling, Simulation, Design and Engineering of WDMSystems and Networks: An Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Georgios Ellinas, Neophytos (Neo) Antoniades and Ioannis Roudas

Part I Tools and Methods

2 Computer Modeling of Transport Layer Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13André Richter

3 State-of-the-Art in Device and Network ElementLevel Modeling. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63Ramón Gutiérrez-Castrejón

4 Semianalytical Models for Network Performance Evaluation . . . . 99Ronald Holzlöhner, Oleg V. Sinkin and Vladimir S. Grigoryan

5 Commercial Optical Communication SoftwareSimulation Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189Dwight H. Richards

Part II Implementations

6 Optical Interconnects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235Nicholas Madamopoulos

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7 Short Range (in-building) Systems and Networks: A Chancefor Plastic Optical Fibers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301María Angeles Losada and Javier Mateo

8 WDM Phase-Modulated Millimeter-Wave Fiber Systems . . . . . . . 325Xianbin Yu, Kamau Prince, Timothy B. Gibbonand Idelfonso T. Monroy

9 Fiber to the Home Through Passive Optical Networks. . . . . . . . . 337Alicia López, Noemí Merayo, Juan José Martínezand Patricia Fernández

10 Coherent Optical Communication Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373Ioannis Roudas

11 Design Process for Terrestrial and Undersea DWDMNetwork Upgrades . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419Sergey Burtsev

Part III Logical Layer

12 Impairment-Aware Optical Networking: A Survey . . . . . . . . . . . 443Siamak Azodolmolky, Marianna Angelou, Ioannis Tomkos,Tania Panayiotou, Georgios Ellinasand Neophytos (Neo) Antoniades

13 Provisioning and Survivability in Multi-DomainOptical Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481Nasir Ghani, Min Peng and Ammar Rayes

14 Future Directions in WDM Systems and Networks . . . . . . . . . . . 521Georgios Ellinas, Neophytos (Neo) Antoniades and Ioannis Roudas

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