Wavelengths Requirement for Permutation Routing in All-Optical Multistage Interconnection Networks

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  • IPDPS '00 Proceedings of the 14th International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing
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  • 2000

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Abstract

In many models of optical routing, to realize a routing request, one needs to find a set of communication paths in the network for the routing request and an assignment of wavelengths to the paths. Conventionally, to resolve the cross-talk problem on the optical fiber links, the wavelengths are assigned to the paths so that each path receive a single wavelength and the paths which receive the same wavelength are edge-disjoint. However, previous studies showed that the cross-talk problem also exists in the switches of the all-optical networks.To solve the cross-talk problem at both links and switches, one approach is to assign the wavelengths to the communication paths so that the paths, which receive the same wavelength, are node-disjoint. Our goal is to minimize the number of wavelengths required for permutation routings by node-disjoint paths on all-optical multistage interconnection networks (MINs) which consists of n stages of 2 times 2 switches connecting N=2n inputs and outputs. We prove that the problem of finding the minimum number of wavelengths for arbitrary partial permutation routings on the MINs is NP-complete.