A Challenge for Routing Algorithms in Optical Multistage Interconnection Networks
Abstract
Problem statement: A class of dynamic interconnection networks is Multistage Interconnection Networks (MINs) that connects input devices to output devices through a number of switch stages. MINs have assumed importance in recent years; because of their cost-effectiveness. Optical MINs are one type of MINs that have large transmission capacity in the communication networks. There is a major problem in Optical MIN that is crosstalk, which is caused by coupling two signals within a switching element. Approach: To avoid crosstalk in Optical MINs many algorithms have been proposed by many researchers that we review applying five routing algorithms and scheduling them in the Optical MINs. Results: The comparative results of routing algorithms show affective of avoiding crosstalk in number of passes and execution time for different algorithm. Conclusion: The challenge between these routing algorithms is thoroughly investigated, by applying them on Optical MIN and showing which algorithm has better performance to avoid crosstalk.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3844/jcssp.2011.1685.1690
Copyright: © 2011 Mehrnaz Moudi and Mohamed Othman. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Keywords
- Optical multistage interconnection networks
- routing algorithm
- switching element
- Multistage Interconnection Networks (MINs)
- Switching Elements (SEs)
- Multilayer Multistage Interconnection Networks (MLMINs)
- Simulated Annealing (SA)
- Genetic Algorithm (GA)