RookNet: A Switching Network for High Speed Communication (Special Issue on Photonic Switching Technologies)

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Central switches are expected to operate at the rate of Terabit per second in high speed networks, like the BISDN. Photonic switches using lightwave technology based on wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) and frequency division multiplexing (FDM) are promising ones for high speed switching. Such lightwave networks are mainly divided into two groups, according to the number of hops required for packets to arrive at their destinations: single-hop networks such as networks using star coupler and multihop networks such as Manhattan Street Network and Shuf fleNet. In this paper we focus our attention on multihop networks and propose a mesh network, referred to as RookNet, for high speed communication. The average transmission delay time and maximum throughput of RookNet is approximately analyzed. It is shown that, as the number of nodes goes to infinity, the maximum throughput approaches .433 and 0.485 when each node is equipped with no internal buffer and internal buffers of infinite capacity for relayed packets, respectively.
社団法人電子情報通信学会の論文
1994-02-25