Title :
Building light-forest to support group multicast in mesh-based optical grid networks
Author :
Rahman, Tanvir ; Ali, Mohamed M. ; Ellinas, Georgios
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., City Univ. of New York, NY, USA
Abstract :
We investigate the problem of group multicasting in optical mesh networks using light-forests. Distributed concurrent light-trees are supported by a light-forest session. Our proposed linear light-trees for drop-and-continue node architecture show efficient light-forest construction.
Keywords :
multicast communication; optical fibre networks; distributed concurrent light-trees; drop-and-continue node architecture; group multicast; light-forest; linear light-trees; mesh-based optical grid networks; Buildings; Computer architecture; Computer networks; Grid computing; Intelligent networks; NP-complete problem; Optical computing; Optical fiber networks; Optical switches; Wavelength assignment;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communication Conference, 2006 and the 2006 National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference. OFC 2006
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-803-9
DOI :
10.1109/OFC.2006.215627
