[TuF2] Design and Control of Optical Networks

12:15 PM - 12:30 PM JST(3:15 AM - 3:30 AM UTC)

[TuF2-3] Mixed Path-Granularity and Grouped-Path Routing Networks

○Yudai Hirai¹, Takuma Kuno¹, Yojiro Mori^2,1, Shih-Chun Lin³, Motoharu Matsuura⁴, Suresh Subramaniam⁵, Hiroshi Hasegawa¹ (1. Nagoya University (Japan), 2. Toyota Technological Institute (Japan), 3. North Carolina State University (United States of America), 4. University of Electro-Communications (Japan), 5. The George Washington University (United States of America))

Keywords:

Photonic switching systems and networks

A novel network architecture consisting of nodes with different routing granularities is proposed. Simulations confirm total network cost reductions of 29%/41% with the introduction of bundled optical path routing to just large-scale nodes.