This book covers the issues of monitoring, failure localization, and restoration in the Internet optical backbone, and focuses on the progress of state-of-the-art in both industry standard and academic research. The authors summarize, categorize, and analyze the developed technology in the context of Internet fault management and failure recovery under the Generalized Multi-Protocol Label Switching (GMPLS), via both aspects of network operations and theories.

Dr. Babarczi is a Research Associate at the University of Waterloo
Dr. Tapolcai is an Associate Professor at Budapest University of Technology
Dr. Ho is an Associate Professor at the University of Waterloo