Research: Integrated algorithms for delay bounded multicast routing and wavelength assignment in all optical networks

  • Authors:
  • Xiao-Hua Jia;Ding-Zhu Du;Xiao-Dong Hu

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong;Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong and Department of Computer Science, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA and Institute of Applied Ma ...;Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong and Institute of Applied Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080, People's Republic of China

  • Venue:
  • Computer Communications
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

There are two steps to set-up a multicast connection in all optical wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) networks: routing and wavelength assignment. Multicast routing is to find a tree in the network rooted from a source node and connecting all destination nodes. Wavelength assignment is to assign a wavelength to the generated routing tree in such a way that if two trees share a common link, then they must be assigned with two different wavelengths. This paper proposes two integrated algorithms to integrate routing and wavelength assignment. The proposed algorithms have the following advantages: (1) the number of wavelengths used is small; (2) the network cost of routing trees is low; and (3) the transmission delay from the source to any multicast destination is bounded.