Title :
GSN: a new multihop architecture for optical networks
Author :
Abbinante, A. ; Camarda, P.
Author_Institution :
Dipt. di Elettrotecnica ed Elettronica, Politecnico di Bari, Italy
Abstract :
The main target of this paper is to define and study new multihop architectures capable, potentially of supporting a sustained throughput per user in the order of a Gigabit per second. The Generalized ShuffleNet (GSN) virtual topology is presented and its main characteristics explored, highlighting modularity and rearrangeability. In particular necessary conditions for rearrangeability have been derived analytically, while the sufficiency has been verified, for particular cases, by a computer program. Moreover a novel, table free, routing scheme ensures high performances by distributed hardware based decisions
Keywords :
hypercube networks; network topology; optical fibre communication; telecommunication network routing; Generalized ShuffleNet; computer program; distributed hardware based decisions; high performance; modularity; multihop architecture; necessary conditions; optical networks; rearrangeability; sufficiency; table free routing; virtual topology; Concurrent computing; Network topology; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber networks; Optical network units; Optical packet switching; Optical receivers; Optical transmitters; Spread spectrum communication; Wavelength division multiplexing;
Conference_Titel :
Local Computer Networks, 1996., Proceedings 21st IEEE Conference on
Conference_Location :
Minneapolis, MN
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-7617-5
DOI :
10.1109/LCN.1996.558179
