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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information

Wavelength Division Multiple Access Ring -- Virtual Topology on a Simple Ring Network --

Xiaoshe DONG, Tomohiro KUDOH, Hideharu AMANO

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In this paper, Wavelength Division Multiple access (WDM) ring is proposed for interconnection in workstation clusters or parallel machines. This network consists of ring connected routers each of which selectively passes signals addressed in some particular wavelengths. Other wavelengths are once converted to electric signals, and re-transmitted being addressed in different wavelengths. Wavelengths are assigned to divisors of the number of nodes in the system. Using the regular WDM ring with imaginary nodes, the diameter and average distance are reduced even if the number of nodes has few divisors. It provides better diameter and average distance than that of the uni-directional torus. Although the diameter and average distance is worse than that of ShuffleNet, the physical structure of the WDM ring is simple and the available number of nodes is flexible.

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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information Vol.E81-D No.4 pp.345-354
Publication Date
1998/04/25
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