CayleyNet: a multihop WDM-based lightwave network

Author

Tang, K. Wendy

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., State Univ. of New York, Stony Brook, NY, USA

fYear

1994

fDate

12-16 Jun 1994

Firstpage

1260

Abstract

A multihop, wavelength division multiplex (WDM)-based network, CayleyNet, is proposed for the realization of terabit lightwave networks. CayleyNets are attractive virtual topologies because they support the largest number of nodes for four-neighbor connection in a range of diameters. In general, CayleyNets are bi-directional and there are N=p×k nodes, where p is a prime and k is a factor of p-1. The analysis shows that CayleyNet has a similar performance in channel efficiency, total and user throughput as the ShuffleNet with N=4^k×k. However, CayleyNet has the advantages of a more flexible network size and symmetric transmission distance. Compared with the N=2 ^k×k ShuffleNet and toroidal mesh, the CayleyNet has a superior performance

Keywords

hypercube networks; network topology; optical links; performance evaluation; telecommunication network routing; wavelength division multiplexing; 1 Tbit/s; CayleyNet; channel efficiency; four-neighbor connection; multihop WDM-based lightwave network; network size; performance; terabit lightwave networks; throughput; transmission distance; virtual topologies; wavelength division multiplexing; Bidirectional control; Frequency; Network topology; Optical fibers; Optical transmitters; Performance analysis; Spread spectrum communication; Telecommunication network topology; Throughput; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

INFOCOM '94. Networking for Global Communications., 13th Proceedings IEEE

Conference_Location

Toronto, Ont.

Print_ISBN

0-8186-5570-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/INFCOM.1994.337546

Filename

337546