Efficient routing and wavelength assignment for multicast in WDM networks

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 97-109

  Chen, Biao ^a,b   Wang, Jianping ^b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b The University of Texas at Dallas   (United States)

Author keywords

Multicast; Wavelength assignment; Wavelength routing; WDM networks

Indexed keywords

MULTICAST ROUTING; MULTICAST TREE; WAVELENGTH ASSIGNMENT; WAVELENGTH CONVERSION;

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; BANDWIDTH; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DENSE WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; FIBER OPTIC NETWORKS; HEURISTIC METHODS; INTERNET; MULTICASTING; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; OPTICAL LINKS;

TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS;

EID: 0036173359     PISSN: 07338716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/49.974665     Document Type: Article

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