Design of a meta-mesh of chain subnetworks: Enhancing the attractiveness of mesh-restorable WDM networking on low connectivity graphs

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 47-61

  Grover, Wayne D ^a,b,c   Doucette, John ^a,b,c  

^a IEEE   (Canada)

^b TRLABS   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Logical topology design; Network architecture; Network management; Network planning and optimization; Protection and restoration; Reconfiguration; Transport networks

Indexed keywords

LOGICAL TOPOLOGY DESIGN; MESH NETWORKS; META MESH GRAPH; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; NETWORK MANAGEMENT; NETWORK PLANNING; OPTICAL ADD DROP MULTIPLEXORS; TRANSPORT NETWORKS;

CONGESTION CONTROL (COMMUNICATION); FIBER OPTIC NETWORKS; GRAPH THEORY; MULTIPLEXING EQUIPMENT; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT; OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS; OPTIMIZATION; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS;

EID: 0036170097     PISSN: 07338716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/49.974661     Document Type: Article

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