GSN: a new multihop architecture for optical networks

Author

Abbinante, A. ; Camarda, P.

Author_Institution

Dipt. di Elettrotecnica ed Elettronica, Politecnico di Bari, Italy

fYear

1996

fDate

13-16 Oct 1996

Firstpage

491

Lastpage

497

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Local Computer Networks, 1996., Proceedings 21st IEEE Conference on

Conference_Location

Minneapolis, MN

ISSN

0742-1303

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7617-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LCN.1996.558179

Filename

558179