Syllabus

MODULE-I (7 hours)
Optical Networking: Principles and Challenges Enabling Technologies: Building Blocks Modulation and De-modulation Transmission System Engineering.
MODULE-II (7 hours)
Local, Access, and Metro Networks: Single-Hop Networks, Multihop Networks, Optical Access Networks, Optical Metro Networks.
MODULE-III (7 hours)
Wavelength-Routed (Wide-Area) Optical Networks: Routing and Wavelength Assignment Elements of Virtual Topology Design Virtual Topology - LP, Cost, Reconfiguration Wavelength Conversion Survivable WDM Networks.
MODULE-IV (10 hours)
Traffic Grooming All-Optical Impairment-Aware Routing Network Control and Management Optical Packet Switching (OPS) Optical Burst Switching (OBS) Application of ML for optical networking.
MODULE-V (5 hours)
Machine Learning: Introduction, Linear Regression, Supervised Learning, Unsupervised Learning, Semi-supervised Learning, Reinforcement Learning, Deep Learning.

To understand the basic concepts of optical components, modulation techniques, and optical transmission systems.

To understand the basic concepts of Local, Access, and Metro Networks.

To build fundamental concepts in Wide-Area Optical Networks for optimal resource assignment and design as per the industrial requirements in the presence of optical impairments.

To comprehend various ML-based optical networks' control and management.

Understand the basic concepts of optical transmission system.

Acquire knowledge to design optical access and metro networks.

Acquire knowledge to design optical core networks and optical resource allocation.

Develop efficient survivability methods for optical networks.

Analyze the impact of grooming and impairments in ML-based optical networks.

Rajiv Ramaswami, Kumar N. Sivarajan, Galen H. Sasaki, Optical Networks - A Practical Perspective, 3rd Ed., Morgan Kaufmann Elsevier, 2010

Andreas Muller, Introduction to Machine Learning with Python: A Guide for Data Scientists, Shroff/O’Reilly, 2016.

Byrav Ramamurthy, Design of Optical WDM Networks - LAN, MAN and WAN Architectures, 1st Ed., Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000.

Biswanath Mukherjee, Optical WDM Networks, Springer, 1st Ed., 2006.