Wide-sense nonblocking multicast in a class of regular optical WDM networks

Author

Zhou, Chunling ; Yang, Yuanyuan

Author_Institution

Artemis Int. Corp., Exton, PA, USA

Volume

50

Issue

1

fYear

2002

fDate

1/1/2002 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

126

Lastpage

134

Abstract

Multicast communication involves transmitting information from a single source node to multiple destination nodes, and is becoming an important requirement in high-performance networks. We study multicast communication in a class of optical WDM networks with regular topologies such as linear arrays, rings, meshes, tori and hypercubes. For each type of network, we derive the necessary and sufficient conditions on the minimum number of wavelengths required for a WDM network to be wide-sense nonblocking for multicast communication under some commonly used routing algorithms

Keywords

multicast communication; network topology; optical fibre networks; telecommunication network routing; wavelength division multiplexing; destination nodes; high-performance networks; hypercubes; light splitting switches; linear arrays; meshes; necessary conditions; network topology; regular optical WDM networks; rings; routing algorithms; source node; sufficient conditions; tori; wavelength converters; wide-sense nonblocking multicast communication; Hypercubes; Multicast algorithms; Multicast communication; Network topology; Optical arrays; Optical fiber networks; Sufficient conditions; WDM networks; Wavelength division multiplexing; Wavelength routing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Communications, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0090-6778

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/26.975778

Filename

975778