Light-Trees: Optical Multicasting for Improved Performance in Wavelength-Routed Networks

IEEE Communications Magazine

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 67-73

  Sahasrabuddhe, Laxman H ^a,b,c   Mukherjee, Biswanath ^a,b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^c INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS   (India)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); CONGESTION CONTROL (COMMUNICATION); ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MULTICASTING; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; PACKET SWITCHING; PROBLEM SOLVING; SIGNAL RECEIVERS; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC; TRANSMITTERS; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

LIGHT-TREES; OPTICAL MULTICASTING;

FIBER OPTIC NETWORKS;

EID: 0033078487     PISSN: 01636804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/35.747251     Document Type: Article

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