[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 (¹Nagoya Univ., ²Toyota Technological Institute, ³North Carolina State Univ., ⁴Univ. of Electro-Communications, ⁵The George Washington Univ.)

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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.