1. Editorial

   • Prof. Dr. Harmen R. van As

   OriginalPaper Pages: 5 - 7

2. Slot Routing as a Solution for Optically Transparent Scalable WDM Wide Area Networks*

   • Imrich Chlamtac
   • Andrea Fumagalli
   • Gosse Wedzinga

   OriginalPaper Pages: 9 - 21

3. The Modular WDM-Gridconnect as a Passive Routing Structure with Distributed Interfacing Capabilities

   • Hubert A. Ja¨ger

   OriginalPaper Pages: 23 - 34

4. Simple Scheduling Algorithms for Use with a Waveguide Grating Multiplexer Based Local Optical Network

   • Michael S. Borella
   • Jason P. Jue
   • Biswanath Mukherjee

   OriginalPaper Pages: 35 - 48

5. Reconfiguration and Dynamic Load Balancing in Broadcast WDM Networks*

   • Ilia Baldine
   • George N. Rouskas

   OriginalPaper Pages: 49 - 64

6. Analysis of Transmission of Sub-Carrier Multiplexed Signals through the Optical Transport Network

   • E. Bravi
   • F. Casella
   • R. Sabella

   OriginalPaper Pages: 65 - 76

7. An OXC Architecture Suitable for High Density WDM Wavelength Routed Networks

   • A. Stavdas
   • H. Avramopoulos
   • J. E. Midwinter

   OriginalPaper Pages: 77 - 88

8. A Comparison of Bit-Parallel and Bit-Serial Architectures for WDM Networks

   • Krishna M. Sivalingam

   OriginalPaper Pages: 89 - 103