Protection interoperability for WDM optical networks
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Nonblocking WDM Multicast Switching Networks
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
Optical networks: a practical perspective
Optical networks: a practical perspective
Degree-constrained multicasting in point-to-point networks
INFOCOM '95 Proceedings of the Fourteenth Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer and Communication Societies (Vol. 1)-Volume - Volume 1
Optical Components for Communications: Principles and Applications
Optical Components for Communications: Principles and Applications
On trading wavelengths with fibers: a cost-performance based study
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Performance evaluation of multi-fiber optical packet switches
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
On multicasting in wavelength-routing mesh networks
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
On-line multicast routing with QoS constraints in WDM networks with no wavelength converters
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
WDM network design by ILP models based on flow aggregation
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Optical switching networks with minimum number of limited-range wavelength converters
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Routing and wavelength assignment in multifiber WDM networks with non-uniform fiber cost
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Guest editorial: Optical networks
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking - Optical networks
Impairment-aware routing and wavelength assignment in translucent networks: state of the art
IEEE Communications Magazine
Light trees: optical multicasting for improved performance in wavelength routed networks
IEEE Communications Magazine
MEMS technology for optical networking applications
IEEE Communications Magazine
The Lucent LambdaRouter: MEMS technology of the future here today
IEEE Communications Magazine
MEMS: the path to large optical crossconnects
IEEE Communications Magazine
Digital MEMS for optical switching
IEEE Communications Magazine
A large scalable ATM multicast switch
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
Power-efficient design of multicast wavelength-routed networks
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
Lighting fibers in a dark network
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
Route-Metric-Based Dynamic Routing and Wavelength Assignment for Multifiber WDM Networks
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications - Part Supplement
On the multicast capacity of unidirectional and bidirectional packet-switched WDM ring networks
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications - Part Supplement
Multicast Flow Aggregation in IP over Optical Networks
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
Optical layer multicast: rationale, building blocks, and challenges
IEEE Network: The Magazine of Global Internetworking
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We consider the problem of upgrading unicast all-optical networks to support multicast communication. In upgrading, it is necessary to modify the existing nodes to support optical multicast switching. It is desirable to: (i) retain and use the existing node components while adding the necessary components so that the upgrading cost is small, and (ii) avoid major modification of the existing node architecture so that the upgrading overhead is small. We propose three designs to realize these two goals: (i) the pre-splitting design adds splitting modules before the existing optical switches where a splitting module can split incoming light beams into multiple ones, (ii) the post-splitting design adds splitting modules after the existing optical switches, and (iii) the pre/post-splitting design adds splitting modules before and after the existing optical switches. The pre-splitting design and post-splitting designs are simpler and involve lower upgrading overhead, while the pre/post-splitting design gives smaller blocking probability and achieves better cost-effectiveness by suitably selecting the number of splitting modules of each type.