Shadi Jawhar, Bernard Cousin, and Zeina Bitar (2012)
Power fairness for multicast traffic in optical networks with adaptive light splitters
In: Broadband Networks and Fast Internet (RELABIRA), 2012 Symposium on, pages 29 -34.
To perform data multicasting in the optical layer, optical
nodes must be equipped with light splitters. Light
splitters can split one light wave to more than one node
output. A lot of work had been done in order to enhance the
structure of the light splitter in a way to reduce its cost
and enhance its performance in terms of the power loss
resulted of multiple splitting. To guarantee the fairness
of power received by different members of a same multicast
group, the use of adaptive light splitters is required.
Adaptive light splitters allow splitting an incoming light
signal into two or more node output with the ability of
varying the individual power of each output signal. This
paper studies the benefits of using adaptive splitters on
the value of the power received by each of the multicast
group members in a way to assure fairness among all
members.