Systolic routing in an optical fat tree

  • Authors:
  • Risto T. Honkanen

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, University of Kuopio, Kuopio, Finland

  • Venue:
  • ISPA'05 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing and Applications
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

In this paper we present an all-optical network architecture and a systolic routing protocol for it. An r-dimensional optical fat tree network ( $\mathcal{OFT}$) consists of 2r–1 routing nodes and n = 2r processing nodes deployed at the leaf nodes of the network. In our construction packets injected into the $\mathcal{OFT}$ carry no routing information. Routing is based on the use of a cyclic control bit sequence and scheduling. The systolic routing protocol ensures that no electro-optical conversion is needed in the intermediate routing nodes and all the packets injected into the routing machinery will reach their target without collisions. A work-optimal routing of an h-relation is achieved with a reasonable size of h.