[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, 2.Toyota Technological Institute, 3.North Carolina State University, 4.University of Electro-Communications, 5.The George Washington University)

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.