@inproceedings{bbf553c8b136411085fc22ff0dcc6aa7,
title = "Multicast communication in a class of rearrangeable optical WDM networks",
abstract = "Multicast is the ability to transmit information from a single source node to multiple destination nodes. Current trends in networking applications indicate that there will be an increasing demand in future networks for multicast. In this paper, we study multicast communication in a class of optical WDM networks with direct interconnects under some commonly used routing algorithms. We formalize multicast communication patterns by the maximum fanout of a source node, and obtain the necessary and sufficient conditions on the minimum number of wavelengths required for a network to be rearrangeable for arbitrary multicast communication. We give general results covering various multicast communication patterns from permutation to broadcast in rings, linear arrays, meshes, and hypercubes.",
keywords = "graph-coloring, multicast, Optical networks, rearrangeable, wavelength division multiplexing (WDM)",
author = "Chungling Zhou and Yuanyuan Yang",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 1998 IEEE.; 5th International Conference on Massively Parallel Processing, MPPOI 1998 ; Conference date: 15-06-1998 Through 17-06-1998",
year = "1998",
doi = "10.1109/MPPOI.1998.682129",
language = "English",
isbn = "0818685727",
series = "Proceedings - 5th International Conference on Massively Parallel Processing, MPPOI 1998",
publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.",
pages = "68--75",
editor = "Marc Snir and Lennart Johnsson and Ray Kostuck and Eugen Schenfeld",
booktitle = "Proceedings - 5th International Conference on Massively Parallel Processing, MPPOI 1998",
}