OTIS-Based Multi-Hop Multi-OPS Lightwave Networks

International audienceAdvances in optical technology, such as low loss Optical Passive Star couplers (OPS) and the possibility of building tunable optical transmitters and receivers have increased the interest for multiprocessor architectures based on lightwave networks because of the vast bandwidth available. Many research have been done at both technological and theoretical level. An essential effort has to be done in linking those results. In this paper we propose optical designs for two multi-OPS networks: the single-hop POPS network and the multi-hop stack-Kautz network; using the Optical Transpose Interconnecting System (OTIS) architecture, from the Optoelectronic Computing Group of UCSD. In order to achieve our result, we also provide the optical design of a generalization of the Kautz digraph, using OTIS

Topologies for Optical Interconnection Networks Based on the Optical Transpose Interconnection System

International audienceMany results exist in the literature describing technological and theoretical advances in optical network topologies and design. However, an essential effort has yet to be done in linking those results together. In this paper, we propose a step in this direction, by giving optical layouts for several graph-theoretical topologies studied in the literature, using the Optical Transpose Interconnection System (OTIS) architecture. These topologies include the family of Partitioned Optical Passive Star (POPS) and stack-Kautz networks as well as a generalization of the Kautz and de Bruijn digraphs

A Performance Comparison Between Graph and Hypergraph Topologies for Passive Star WDM Lightwave Networks

Wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) allows the huge bandwidth of optical øber to be divided into several high-speed channels in optical passive star based networks. For such processor networks, most of the proposed architectures for interconnecting nodes are based on graph topologies. Recently, topologies based on the hypergraph theory have emerged, motivated by the observation that each multiplexed channel can actually be seen as a logical resource shared among many processors, and not only between two of them. In this paper, we show that these hypergraph passive star WDM lightwave networks present many advantages with respect to graph-based ones, in terms of simulated packet delivery time, average number of hops, link utilization, and throughput. Furthermore, they use only a constant number of transceivers per node, and a sub-linear number of multiplexed channels. Keywords: Computer Network Topologies, Optical Passive Star, Lightwave Networks, Performance Models, Hypergraphs, Rou..