1. ASON and GMPLS—Overview and Comparison

   • Slobodanka Tomic
   • Brikena Statovci-Halimi
   • Juergen Fruehwirth

   OriginalPaper Pages: 111 - 130

2. Strategy for Dynamic Routing and Grooming of Data Flows into Lightpaths in New Generation Network Based on the GMPLS Paradigm

   • R. Sabella
   • P. Iovanna
   • P. D'Aprile

   OriginalPaper Pages: 131 - 144

3. Hierarchical Protection Tree Scheme for Failure Recovery in Mesh Networks

   • Shahram Shah-Heydari
   • Oliver Yang

   OriginalPaper Pages: 145 - 159

4. Optical-LSP Establishment and a QoS Maintenance Scheme Based on Differentiated Optical QoS Classes in OVPNs

   • Mi-Ra Yoon
   • Ju-Dong Shin
   • Sung-Un Kim

   OriginalPaper Pages: 161 - 178

5. Design and Dimensioning of a WDM Mesh Network to Groom Dynamically Varying Traffic

   • N. Srinivas
   • C. Siva Ram Murthy

   OriginalPaper Pages: 179 - 191

6. QoS Based Survivable Logical Topology Design in WDM Optical Networks

   • G. Raghu Kiran
   • C. Siva Ram Murthy

   OriginalPaper Pages: 193 - 206