Architectures and routing schemes for optical network-on-chips

Computers and Electrical Engineering

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 856-877

  Zhang, Lei ^a   Yang, Mei ^a   Jiang, Yingtao ^a   Regentova, Emma ^a  

^a University of Nevada Las Vegas   (United States)

Author keywords

Network on chip (NoC); Optical switch; Recursive wavelength routed optical network (RCWRON); Wavelength routed optical network (WRON)

Indexed keywords

BROAD-BAND DATA; DESTINATION NODES; INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY; INTERCONNECTION ARCHITECTURE; K DIELECTRICS; NETWORK-ON-CHIP (NOC); ON CHIPS; OPTICAL NETWORKS; OPTICAL WIRING; RECURSIVE ARCHITECTURE; RECURSIVE WAVELENGTH ROUTED OPTICAL NETWORK (RCWRON); REDUNDANT ARCHITECTURE; ROADMAP; ROUTING SCHEME; SOURCE NODES; TRANSFER RATES; WAVELENGTH ROUTED OPTICAL NETWORK (WRON); WAVELENGTH ROUTED OPTICAL NETWORKS;

DATA TRANSFER; DATA TRANSFER RATES; ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; OPTICAL SWITCHES; RECURSIVE FUNCTIONS; ROUTERS; ROUTING ALGORITHMS; ROUTING PROTOCOLS; TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING; WAVELENGTH;

OPTICAL MATERIALS;

EID: 70350507110     PISSN: 00457906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compeleceng.2008.09.010     Document Type: Article

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