Layered switch architectures for high-capacity optical transport networks

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 1074-1079

  Lin, Lih Y ^a,b,d,e,f   Karasan, Ezhan ^a,b,c,g,h,i   Tkach, Robert W ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

^c BILKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e SPIE   (United States)

^f OSA ^*  (Taiwan)

^g MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^h RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Blocking probability; Expandability; Link utilization; Optical networking; Switch architecture

Indexed keywords

CROSSTALK; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL SWITCHES; PROBABILITY;

LAYERED SWITCH ARCHITECTURES; NETWORK BLOCKING PROBABILITY;

FIBER OPTIC NETWORKS;

EID: 11344282932     PISSN: 07338716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/49.725179     Document Type: Article

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