chapter 1 Optical Networking Capabilities for the Next-Generation Internet / chapter 2 Analysis of Multimedia Access Protocols for Shared Medium Networks / chapter 3 The Design and Performance of a Lightwave Data Storage Network Using Computer Analysis and Simulation / chapter 4 Routed Wavelength WDM Networks / chapter 5 The Optical Network Control Plane / chapter 6 Routing and Path Establishment for Point-to-Point and Point-to-Multipoint Communications over WDM Networks / chapter 7 Routing in Multihop Optical WDM Networks with Limited Wavelength Conversion / chapter 8 Optical Switching Architectures / chapter 9 Scalable Electro-Optical Clos Switch Architectures / chapter 10 Parallel Free-Space Optical Interconnection / chapter 11 Optical Computing Using Trinary Signed-Digit Arithmetic / chapter 12 Ultrafast Arithmetic, Logical, and Image Processing Operations Using Polarization-Encoded Optical Shadow-Casting