Routing and wavelength assignment in generalized WDM tree networks of bounded degree

  • Authors:
  • Stratis Ioannidis;Christos Nomikos;Aris Pagourtzis;Stathis Zachos

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto;Department of Computer Science, University of Ioannina;School of Elec. & Comp. Engineering, National Technical University of Athens;School of Elec. & Comp. Engineering, National Technical University of Athens

  • Venue:
  • PCI'05 Proceedings of the 10th Panhellenic conference on Advances in Informatics
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

The increasing popularity of all-optical networks has led to extensive research on the routing and wavelength assignment problem, also termed as the Routing and Path Coloring problem (RPC). Here we present a polynomial time algorithm that solves RPC exactly in generalized tree networks of bounded degree. This new topology is of practical interest since it models tree-like backbone networks connecting bounded-size LANs of any form. Tree-like backbone structure is very common in practice and bounded size LANs is a reasonable assumption, since LANs are by nature networks unable to sustain a large number of hosts.