Multicast communication in a class of wide-sense nonblocking optical WDM networks

Author

Zhou, Chunling ; Yang, Yuanyuan

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Vermont Univ., Burlington, VT, USA

fYear

1998

fDate

12-15 Oct 1998

Firstpage

321

Lastpage

328

Abstract

Multicast communication involves transmitting information from a single source node to multiple destination nodes, and is becoming an important requirement in high-performance networks. In this paper, we study multicast communication in a class of optical WDM networks with direct interconnects such as linear arrays, rings, meshes, tori and hypercubes. For each type of network, we derive the necessary and sufficient conditions on the minimum number of wavelengths required for a network to be wide-sense nonblocking for arbitrary multicast communication

Keywords

hypercube networks; multicast communication; optical fibre networks; telecommunication network routing; wavelength division multiplexing; bidirectional rings; direct interconnects; high-performance networks; hypercubes; linear arrays; mesh networks; multicast communication; optical WDM networks; ring networks; torus networks; unidirectional rings; wide-sense nonblocking networks; Bandwidth; Intelligent networks; Multicast communication; Optical arrays; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber networks; Optical interconnections; Optical sensors; WDM networks; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Communications and Networks, 1998. Proceedings. 7th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Lafayette, LA

ISSN

1095-2055

Print_ISBN

0-8186-9014-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCCN.1998.998792

Filename

998792