On the number of fiber connections and star couplers in multi-star single-hop networks

Author

Wan, Peng-Jun

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Appl. Math., Illinois Inst. of Technol., Chicago, IL, USA

fYear

35735

fDate

2-5 Nov1997

Firstpage

476

Lastpage

481

Abstract

The single star optical network is limited in size by the available power budget. When the network size exceeds the number of connections a star coupler can support, it becomes necessary to use multiple passive star couplers to implement the network. The cost of a multi star optical network is determined by the number of fiber connections per station and the number of star couplers in the network. To reduce the cost of the network, it is desirable to use as least amount of fiber connections per station and star couplers as possible. We consider two multi star implementations of single hop networks, and discuss how to implement them with least cost

Keywords

communication complexity; optical computing; optical fibre networks; wavelength division multiplexing; fiber connections; multi star implementations; multi star optical network; multi star single hop networks; multiple passive star couplers; network cost; network size; power budget; single hop networks; single star optical network; star couplers; Costs; Intelligent networks; Optical attenuators; Optical fiber couplers; Optical fiber networks; Optical receivers; Optical transmitters; Switches; WDM networks; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Local Computer Networks, 1997. Proceedings., 22nd Annual Conference on

Conference_Location

Minneapolis, MN

ISSN

0742-1303

Print_ISBN

0-8186-8141-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LCN.1997.631017

Filename

631017