Optical Switching Networks With Minimum Number of Limited-Range Wavelength Converters

Author

Ngo, Hung Q. ; Pan, Dazhen ; Yang, Yuanyuan

Author_Institution

State Univ. of New York at Buffalo, Amherst

Volume

15

Issue

4

fYear

2007

Firstpage

969

Lastpage

979

Abstract

We study the problem of determining the minimum number of limited-range wavelength converters needed to construct strictly, wide-sense, and rearrangeably nonblocking optical cross-connects for both unicast and multicast traffic patterns. We give the exact formula to compute this number for rearrangeably and wide-sense nonblocking cross-connects under both the unicast and multicast cases. We also give optimal cross-connect constructions with respect to the number of limited-range wavelength converters.

Keywords

optical fibre networks; optical switches; optical wavelength conversion; wavelength division multiplexing; multicast traffic pattern; nonblocking optical cross-connects; optical switching networks; unicast traffic pattern; wavelength converters; wavelength division multiplexing; Bandwidth; Communication switching; High speed optical techniques; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber networks; Optical interconnections; Optical wavelength conversion; Unicast; WDM networks; Wavelength division multiplexing; Cross-connects; limited-range wavelength conversion; optical switching networks; wavelength-division-multiplexing (WDM);

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Networking, IEEE/ACM Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1063-6692

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TNET.2007.896256

Filename

4265603