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Impairment constraint multicasting in translucent WDM networks: architecture, network design and multicasting routing

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The popularity of broadband streaming applications requires communication networks to support high-performance multicasting at the optical layer. Suffering from transmission impairments in multi-hop all-optical (transparent) WDM multicasting networks, the signal may be degraded beyond the receivable margin at some multicast destinations. To guarantee the signal quality, we introduce a translucent WDM multicasting network to regenerate the degraded signals at some switching nodes with electronic 3R (reamplification, reshaping and retiming) functionality. The translucent network is built by employing three kinds of multicasting capable switching architectures: (1) all-optical multicasting capable cross connect (oMC-OXC), (2) electronic switch and (3) translucent multicasting capable cross connect (tMC-OXC). Among them both the electronic switch and tMC-OXC are capable of electronic 3R regeneration. Furthermore, we propose a multicast-capable nodes placement algorithm based on regeneration weight, and two multicasting routing algorithms called nearest hub first and nearest on tree hub first to provide signal-quality guaranteed routes for the multicasting requests. The numerical simulation on two typical mesh networks shows that it is sufficient to equip 30% of the nodes or less with signal-regeneration capability to guarantee the signal quality.

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    Yunfeng Peng, Weisheng Hu, Weiqiang Sun, Xiaodong Wang & Yaohui Jin

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Peng, Y., Hu, W., Sun, W. et al. Impairment constraint multicasting in translucent WDM networks: architecture, network design and multicasting routing. Photon Netw Commun 13, 93–102 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/PL00022065

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