6.291
Seminar in Systems, Communications, and Control Research
Spring, 2008
The seminar course for this semester will focus on recent research frontiers in optical networks. The emphasis will be on the exploration of radically new architectures that make substantial differences in performance and cost. Topics include centralized and distributed control planes for IP and optical layers, fast setup transport mechanisms, routing and wavelength assignment algorithms, Transport Layer Protocols, cost efficient network architectures, and security and identification of disruptive technologies to be developed. Students will attend some of the more advanced lectures of 6.442 Optical Communications and Networks and the course will be graded on a presentation of an advanced topic on network architecture.
Lectures
Mondays and
Wednesdays, 9:30 - 11:00 AM
Teaching material
Notes by lecturer plus reference
materials from current literature
Instructor
Vincent W. S. Chan
chan(at)mit(dot)edu
36-545
X 8-8222
Office hours: TBD
Teaching assistants
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Lillian Dai |
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Etty Lee |
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Guy Weichenberg |