Synchronization of Digital Telecommunications Networks

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

I wish to thank all the people who have helped me throughout the long years that I needed to complete the manuscript.

First, all members of the Italian Study Group on Synchronization, established by Telecom Italia and joined by Sirti, Fondazione Ugo Bordoni and CSELT (now Telecom Italia Lab), with whom I began to work with in the early 1990s. In particular, my former boss Luca Valtriani in Sirti; Marco Carboneili, Domenico De Seta and Daniele Perucchini (Fondazione Ugo Bordoni); Alfonso Mariconda (Telecom Italia); Antonio Manzalin and Roberto Bonello (CSELT). Most of the experimental work presented in this book was carried out while I was with the R&D Division of Sirti, within the Italian Study Group on Synchronization.

Among them, a special mention is due to Carboneili, De Seta and Perucchini, in particular for having derived or gathered from literature many results presented in Sections 5.10, 5.11 and 5.12, and to Luca Valtriani, who first guided me on the way of synchronization. Moreover, I want to mention Masami Kihara (NTT Network Innovation Laboratories) for his help with Section 4.8.3, Patrizia Tavella (Instituto Elettrotecnico Nazionale Galileo Ferraris) and Dominik Schneuwly (Oscilloquartz SA) for comments on clock performance data and fruitful technical discussions.

I feel also indebted to Mark Hammond, Senior Publishing Editor and Sarah Hinton, Assistant Editor of John Wiley & Sons, Ltd at Chichester, U.K. They have supported my work for years, remained ...