Traffic Grooming in Optical WDM Mesh Networks captures the state-of-the-art in the design and analysis of network architectures, protocols, and algorithms for implementing efficient traffic grooming in optical WDM mesh networks. Key topics include: Static traffic grooming; Dynamic traffic grooming; Grooming models and policies; Grooming node architectures; Design of grooming network; Traffic grooming in next-generation SONET/SDH networks. The authors...