1st Annual Conference on Broadband Networks

Research Article

Buffer-efficient routing strategies for optical circuit switching networks

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/BROADNETS.2004.20,
        author={Willis Siu-Yu Yuen and An Chen and Albert Kai-Sun Wong and Chin-Tau Lea},
        title={Buffer-efficient routing strategies for optical circuit switching networks},
        proceedings={1st Annual Conference on Broadband Networks},
        publisher={IEEE},
        proceedings_a={BROADNETS},
        year={2004},
        month={12},
        keywords={},
        doi={10.1109/BROADNETS.2004.20}
    }
    
  • Willis Siu-Yu Yuen
    An Chen
    Albert Kai-Sun Wong
    Chin-Tau Lea
    Year: 2004
    Buffer-efficient routing strategies for optical circuit switching networks
    BROADNETS
    IEEE
    DOI: 10.1109/BROADNETS.2004.20
Willis Siu-Yu Yuen1,*, An Chen1,*, Albert Kai-Sun Wong1,*, Chin-Tau Lea1,*
  • 1: Department of EEE, HKUST, Clear Wa ter Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong
*Contact email: willis@ee.ust.hk, anchen@ee.ust.hk, eealbert@ee.ust.hk, eelea@ee.ust.hk

Abstract

Buffer minimization is an important design issue in optical circuit switching networks because of the high cost of optical buffers. In this paper, we show how to design routing strategies that can reduce buffer requirement in such networks. We propose two classes of buffer-efficient routing schemes and compare their performance in terms of complexity, buffer requirement and blocking probability.