Publications

• Simmons, J.M., Optical Network Design and Planning, Springer, 2008. (Book Info)



• Simmons, J.M., "Nodal Architectures for Shared Mesh Restoration of IP and Wavelength Services," Photonics Technology Letters, Vol. 21, No. 22, November 15, 2009, pp. 1677-1679. (PDF)
• Simmons, J.M. and Saleh, A.A.M., "Reliable Networks Based on General Passive Routing Devices," Journal of Lightwave Technology, Vol. 27, No. 15, August 1, 2009, pp. 2941-2948. (PDF)
• Berthold, J., Saleh, A.A.M., Blair, L., and Simmons, J.M., "Optical Networking: Past, Present, and Future," Journal of Lightwave Technology, Vol. 26, No. 9, May 1, 2008, pp. 1104 - 1118. (PDF)
• Simmons, J.M., "Survivable Passive Optical Networks Based on Arrayed Waveguide Grating Architectures," Journal of Lightwave Technology, Vol. 25, No. 12, Dec. 2007, pp. 3658 - 3668. (PDF)
• Simmons, J.M., "Cost vs. Capacity Tradeoff with Shared Mesh Protection in Optical-Bypass-Enabled Backbone Networks," OFC/NFOEC'2007, Anaheim, CA, March 25-29, 2007, Paper NThC2. (PDF)
• Simmons, J.M. and Saleh, A.A.M., "Network Agility Through Flexible Transponders," Photonics Technology Letters, Vol. 19, No. 5, March 1, 2007, pp. 309 - 311. (PDF)
• Simmons, J.M., "Network Design in Realistic All-Optical Backbone Networks," Communications Magazine, Vol. 44, No. 11, Nov. 2006, pp. 88 - 94. (PDF)
• Saleh, A.A.M. and Simmons, J.M., "Evolution Toward the Next-Generation Core Optical Network," Journal of Lightwave Technology, Vol. 24, No. 9, Sept. 2006, pp. 3303 - 3321. (PDF)
• Simmons, J.M., "On Determining the Optimal Optical Reach for a Long-Haul Network," Journal of Lightwave Technology, Vol. 23, No. 3, March 2005, pp. 1039 - 1048. (PDF)
• Simmons, J.M., "Analysis of Wavelength Conversion in All-Optical Express Backbone Networks," OFC'02, Anaheim, CA, March 17-22, 2002, Paper TuG2. (PDF)
• Simmons, J.M., Saleh, A.A.M., and Benmohamed, L., "Extending Generalized Multi Protocol Label Switching to Configurable All-Optical Networks," NFOEC'01, Baltimore, MD, July 8-12, 2001. (PDF)
• Simmons, J.M., "Economic and Architectural Benefits of Hierarchical Backbone Networks," Invited Paper, LEOS Summer Topicals, Turnberry Isle Resort, Florida, July 24-28, 2000. (PDF)
• Saleh, A.A.M. and Simmons, J.M., "Architectural Principles of Optical Regional and Metropolitan Access Networks," Journal of Lightwave Technology, Invited Paper, Vol. 17, No. 12, Dec. 1999, pp. 2431 - 2448. (PDF)
• Froberg, N., et al., "The NGI ONRAMP test bed: Regional Access WDM technology for the Next Generation Internet," LEOS'99 12th Annual Meeting, Invited Paper, November 1999. (PDF)
• Simmons, J.M. and Saleh, A.A.M, "The Value of Optical Bypass in Reducing Router Size in Gigabit Networks," ICC'99, Vancouver, British Columbia, June 6-10, 1999, Vol. 1, pp. 591 - 596. This paper quantifies the benefits of optical bypass in an IP-over-WDM architecture. It extends the Supernode concept to mesh networks, which is analogous to two-level hierarchical grooming.(PDF)
• Simmons, J.M., et al., "Optical Regional Access Network (ORAN) Project," Invited Paper, OFC'99, San Diego, CA, Feb. 21-26, 1999, Paper WK1. (PDF)
• Simmons, J.M., "Hierarchical Restoration in a Backbone Network," OFC'99, San Diego, CA, Feb. 21-26, 1999, Paper TuL2. (PDF)
• Simmons, J.M., Goldstein, E.L., Saleh, A.A.M., "Quantifying the Benefit of Wavelength-Add/Drop in WDM Rings with Distance-Independent and Dependent Traffic," Journal of Lightwave Technology, Vol. 17, No. 1, Jan. 1999, pp. 48 - 57. This expands on our earlier paper that quantified the benefits of grooming traffic in order to optimize optical bypass and reduce the amount of required electronic terminating equipment. (PDF)
• Simmons, J.M., "Architectural Advantages of WDM Technology in Access Networks," LEOS'98, 11th Annual Meeting, Invited Paper, Orlando, FL, Dec. 1-4, 1998, Vol. 2, pp. 232 - 233. (PDF)
• Lin, L., Goldstein, E., Simmons, J.M., Tkach, R., "High-Density Micromachined Polygon Optical Crossconnects Exploiting Network Connection Symmetry", Photonics Technology Letters, Vol. 10, No. 10, Oct. 1998, pp. 1425 - 1427. (PDF)
• Simmons, J. M., Saleh, A.A.M., Goldstein, E., Lin, L., "Optical Crossconnects of Reduced Complexity for WDM Networks with Bidirectional Symmetry," Photonics Technology Letters, Vol. 10, No. 6, June 1998, pp. 819 - 821. (PDF)
• Goldstein, E., Lin, L., Simmons, J.M., Tkach, R., "Connection-Symmetric Micromachined Polygon Optical Crossconnects for WDM Lightwave Networks", Trends in Optics and Photonics, Vol. 20, 1998. (PDF)
• Simmons, J. M. and Saleh, A.A.M., "On the Value of Wavelength-Add/Drop in WDM Rings," Trends in Optics and Photonics, Vol. 20, 1998. (PDF)
• Lin, L., Goldstein, E., Simmons, J.M., Tkach, R., "High-Density Connection-Symmetric Free-Space Micromachined Polygon Optical Crossconnects with Low Loss for WDM Networks", OFC'98, San Jose, CA, Feb. 22-27, 1998, Paper PD-24. (PDF)
• Simmons, J. M., Goldstein, E.L., Saleh, A.A.M., "On The Value of Wavelength-Add/Drop in WDM Rings With Uniform Traffic," Invited Paper, OFC'98, San Jose, CA, Feb. 22-27, 1998, Paper ThU3. This is the first published paper that quantifies the benefits of grooming traffic in order to optimize optical bypass and reduce the amount of required electronic terminating equipment. It introduces the Supernode concept, which is analogous to two-level hierarchical grooming.(PDF)
• Simmons, J. M., "Proof of Correctness of ATM Retransmission Scheme," Computer Networks and ISDN Systems, Vol. 29, Jan. 1997, pp. 181-194. (PDF)
• Simmons, J. M., "A Strategy for Designing Error Detection Schemes for General Data Networks," IEEE Network, Vol. 8, No. 4, July-Aug. 1994, pp. 41 - 48. (PDF)
• Simmons, J. M. and Gallager, R. G., "Design of Error Detection Scheme for Class C Service in ATM," IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol. 2, No. 1, Feb. 1994, pp. 80 - 88. (PDF)
• Simmons, J. M., "Analysis of Rate Assignments in a Rate-Based Flow Control Scheme," MS Thesis, MIT, Feb. 1990. This is some of the earliest work performed on the theory of effective bandwidth. (PDF)