Optical layer multicast: rationale, building blocks, and challenges

GN Rouskas - IEEE network, 2003 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Optical layer multicast refers to the support of point-to-multipoint connections directly at the
physical layer by employing passive devices capable of splitting the power of an input signal …

Optical multicast over wavelength-routed WDM networks: A survey

Y Zhou, GS Poo - Optical Switching and Networking, 2005 - Elsevier
With the rapid development of optical networking technology, it is now a realizable
technique to support point-to-multipoint connections directly on the optical layer, giving rise …

Multicasting in WDM networks

J He, SHG Chan, DHK Tsang - IEEE Communications Surveys …, 2002 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) networks are believed to be a promising candidate
to meet the explosive increase of bandwidth demand in the Internet. In this article, we survey …

Power-efficient design of multicast wavelength-routed networks

M Ali, JS Deogun - IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in …, 2000 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we introduce the power-efficient design space for multicast wavelength-routed
networks. The power-efficient design space is based on the impact of power on the overall …

Impairment-and splitting-aware cloud-ready multicast provisioning in elastic optical networks

Z Zhu, X Liu, Y Wang, W Lu, L Gong… - … /ACM Transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
It is known that multicast provisioning is important for supporting cloud-based applications,
and as the traffics from these applications are increasing quickly, we may rely on optical …

[图书][B] The handbook of optical communication networks

M Ilyas, HT Mouftah - 2003 - taylorfrancis.com
The Internet revolution. Once, the public was delighted with 14.4 modem access and
fascinated by low-tech Web site content. But not for long. Technology has raced to keep up …

Leveraging light forest with rateless network coding to design efficient all-optical multicast schemes for elastic optical networks

L Yang, L Gong, F Zhou, B Cousin… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we study the multicast-capable routing, modulation, and spectrum assignment
(MC-RMSA) schemes that consider the physical impairments from both the transmission and …

All-optical network coding

ED Manley, JS Deogun, L Xu… - Journal of Optical …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We investigate the application of network coding to all-optical networks from both the
algorithmic and infrastructural perspectives. We study the effectiveness of using network …

Coordinating multiple light-trails in multicast elastic optical networks with adaptive modulation

A Cai, Y Li, J Chen, J Shen - IEEE Photonics Journal, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Optical multicasting has been considered resource efficient for multicast services. Light-tree
and light-trail are two technologies that support optical multicasting while the former requires …

Multicast traffic grooming in wavelength-routed WDM mesh networks using dynamically changing light-trees

X Huang, F Farahmand, JP Jue - Journal of Lightwave Technology, 2005 - opg.optica.org
In this paper, we address the online multicast traffic grooming problem in wavelength-routed
wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) mesh networks with sparse grooming capability …