Wavelength conversion in WDM networking

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 1061-1073

  Ramamurthy, Byrav ^a,b,d,e,f   Mukherjee, Biswanath ^a,c  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^c University of California   (United States)

^d INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS   (India)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Circuit switching; Lightpath; Network design; Optical network; Performance analysis; Wavelength conversion; Wavelength routing; Wavelength division multiplexing (WDM)

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

WAVELENGTH CONVERTIBLE NETWORKS;

FIBER OPTIC NETWORKS;

EID: 0032157158     PISSN: 07338716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/49.725178     Document Type: Article

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