A new method for evaluating lightwave network architectures

Author

Khasnabish, B. ; Ahmadi, M. ; Erfani, S. ; Shridhar, M.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Windsor Univ., Ont., Canada

fYear

1991

fDate

14-17 May 1991

Firstpage

316

Abstract

Presents a novel analytical technique for evaluating a lightwave network architecture for two different traffic distribution patterns, viz., uniform traffic distributions (UTDs) and zonal traffic distributions (ZTDs). Evaluating an architecture in the context of interest calls for determining the internode distance (IND) distribution, the mean IND (MIND), the topology z-transform, and the penalty per deflection en route to destination for a prespecified version of the network structure. It is shown that the architectural properties of a network are very much dependent on the traffic distribution patterns

Keywords

optical communication; telecommunication traffic; architectural properties; internode distance; lightwave network architectures; mean IND; penalty per deflection; topology z-transform; traffic distribution patterns; uniform traffic distributions; zonal traffic distributions; Communication networks; Computational modeling; Computer architecture; Computer networks; Distributed computing; Laboratories; Neodymium; Network topology; Pattern analysis; Telecommunication traffic;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Circuits and Systems, 1991., Proceedings of the 34th Midwest Symposium on

Conference_Location

Monterey, CA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-0620-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MWSCAS.1991.252162

Filename

252162