Multicasting in deflection-routed all-optical packet-switched networks

Author

Li, C.Y. ; Wai, P.K.A. ; Yuan, X.C. ; Li, Victor O K

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Inf. Eng., Hong Kong Polytech. Univ., China

Volume

3

fYear

2002

fDate

17-21 Nov. 2002

Firstpage

2842

Abstract

Two multicast protocols are proposed for deflection-routed all-optical packet-switched networks. One scheme sends a deflected multicast packet back to the root node while the other sends it back to the deflection point. Both schemes can be implemented using demonstrated optical signal processing technology. The performance of the two proposed multicast schemes are compared using Manhattan street networks. We found that the back-to-the-root-node scheme performed better than the back-to-the-deflection-node scheme. A hybrid approach can further improve the system performance.

Keywords

multicast protocols; optical fibre networks; optical information processing; packet switching; routing protocols; Manhattan street networks; all-optical packet-switched networks; back-to-the-deflection-node scheme; back-to-the-root-node scheme; deflection-routed packet-switched networks; hybrid approach; multicast protocols; multicasting; optical signal processing; system performance; Delay; Electronic mail; Intelligent networks; Multicast protocols; Optical buffering; Optical packet switching; Optical signal processing; Photonics; Routing; System performance;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Global Telecommunications Conference, 2002. GLOBECOM '02. IEEE

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7632-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/GLOCOM.2002.1189148

Filename

1189148