Nonblocking four-stage multicast network for multicast-capable optical cross connects

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 27, Issue 17, 2009, Pages 3923-3932

  Yan, Fangfang ^a   Hu, Weisheng ^a   Sun, Weiqiang ^a   Guo, Wei ^a   Jin, Yaohui ^a   He, Hao ^a   Dong, Yi ^a   Xiao, Shilin ^a  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Multicast; Multistage network; Optical cross connects; Rearrangeable nonblocking; Wide sense nonblocking

Indexed keywords

MULTICAST; MULTISTAGE NETWORK; OPTICAL CROSS CONNECTS; REARRANGEABLE NONBLOCKING; WIDE-SENSE NONBLOCKING;

CONTROL THEORY; COST REDUCTION; CROSS CONNECTIONS (WATER DISTRIBUTION); LIGHT TRANSMISSION; OPTICAL SWITCHES; SEMICONDUCTOR COUNTERS; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS;

MULTICASTING;

EID: 69249189832     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2009.2021281     Document Type: Article

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