LIGHTNETS - TOPOLOGIES FOR HIGH-SPEED OPTICAL NETWORKS

被引:73
作者
CHLAMTAC, I [1 ]
GANZ, A [1 ]
KARMI, G [1 ]
机构
[1] QUALCOMM INC,SAN DIEGO,CA 92121
关键词
D O I
10.1109/50.233259
中图分类号
TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
学科分类号
0808 ; 0809 ;
摘要
An inherent problem of conventional point to point WAN architectures is that they cannot translate optical transmission bandwidth into comparable user available throughput due to the limiting electronic processing speed of the switching nodes. This paper presents a solution to WDM based WAN networks that addresses this limitation. The proposed Lightnet architecture trades the ample bandwidth obtained by using multiple wavelength for a reduction in the number of processing stages and a simplification of each switching stage, leading to substantially increased throughputs. The principle of the Lightnet architecture is the construction and use of a virtual topology network in the wavelength domain, embedded in the original network. This paper studies the embedding of virtual networks whose topologies are regular, using algorithms which provide bounds on the number of wavelengths, switch sizes, and average number of switching stages per packet transmission. Algorithms for the embedding of alternative regular topologies are presented and their performance is evaluated. It is shown that compared to conventional network architectures, the Lightnets offer substantial performance gains in terms of increased throughput and smaller buffering requirements.
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页码:951 / 961
页数:11
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