On the Number of Wavelengths and Switches in All-Optical Networks

IEEE Transactions on Communications

Volumn 42, Issue 234, 1994, Pages 583-591

  Barry, Richard A ^a   Humblet, Pierre A ^b  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL PATH ANALYSIS; FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; FUNCTION EVALUATION; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL SWITCHES; SIGNAL DETECTION; STATE ASSIGNMENT; SWITCHING; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC;

FREQUENCY CHANGING; LINEAR LIGHTWAVE NETWORK; WAVELENGTH REUSE; WAVELENGTH ROUTING;

FIBER OPTIC NETWORKS;

EID: 0028375404     PISSN: 00906778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCOMM.1994.577085     Document Type: Article

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