Systolic routing in an optical butterfly

  • Authors:
  • Risto T. Honkanen

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

  • Venue:
  • PaCT'05 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Parallel Computing Technologies
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

In this paper we present an all-optical network architecture and a systolic routing protocol for it. The r-dimensional optical butterfly $({\mathcal OBF})$ network consists of r2r nodes and r2r+1 edges. Processors are deployed at the level 0 (identical to level r) nodes of the network. Routing is based on the use of cyclical 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.