DocumentCode :
1952483
Title :
The advantages of partitioning multicast transmissions in a single-hop optical WDM network
Author :
Jue, Jason P. ; Mukherjee, Biswanath
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., California Univ., Davis, CA, USA
Volume :
1
fYear :
1997
fDate :
8-12 Jun 1997
Firstpage :
427
Abstract :
In a single-hop WDM optical network, a straightforward approach to implementing multicasting is to schedule a single transmission to multiple destinations so that all of the destinations´ receivers must tune to the same channel at the same time. Although scheduling a single transmission in this manner reduces the amount of transmitter and channel resources being used, it may also place a burden on the receivers in the network. If all receivers do not become available at the same time, then some receivers may have to wait (and be idle) for significantly long periods of time before receiving the message. In this paper, we investigate methods for partitioning a multicast group into a number of smaller subgroups and for scheduling a separate transmission for each of these subgroups. We show that this approach more effectively conserves and balances the usage of transmitter and receiver resources in the network and may lead to significantly improved system performance over the conventional single-transmission multicast approach
Keywords :
optical fibre networks; optical receivers; scheduling; wavelength division multiplexing; multicast group; multicast transmissions partitioning; multicasting; receivers; scheduling; single-hop optical WDM network; system performance; Bandwidth; Broadcasting; Couplings; Intelligent networks; Optical fiber couplers; Optical fiber networks; Optical receivers; Optical transmitters; WDM networks; Wavelength division multiplexing;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Communications, 1997. ICC '97 Montreal, Towards the Knowledge Millennium. 1997 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Montreal, Que.
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-3925-8
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/ICC.1997.605329
Filename :
605329
Link To Document :
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