@article{5f3da16b01344f338191bbe130832741,
title = "Shortest path routing in optical WDM ring networks under multicast traffic",
abstract = "We present an analytical model to investigate the mean hop distance of shortest path routing bidirectional optical WDM ring networks not only for multicast traffic with arbitrary fanout but also for unicast and broadcast traffic.",
keywords = "Mean hop distance, Multicasting, Optical ring network, Shortest path routing, Wavelength division multiplexing",
author = "Michael Scheutzow and Patrick Seeling and Martin Maier and Martin Reisslein",
note = "Funding Information: Manuscript received January 16, 2006. The associate editor coordinating the review of this letter and approving it for publication was Dr. Aleksan-dra Smiljanic. Supported in part by the DFG Research Center MATHEON “Mathematics for key technologies,” Berlin, Germany. M. Scheutzow is with the Dept. of Mathematics, Technical University Berlin, 10623 Berlin, Germany (e-mail: ms@math.tu-berlin.de). M. Maier is with the Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS), Montr{\'e}al, QC, H5A 1K6, Canada (e-mail: maier@ieee.org). M. Reisslein and P. Seeling are with the Dept. of Electrical Eng., Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ 85287-5706, USA (e-mail: {reisslein, patrick.seeling}@asu.edu). Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/LCOMM.2006.060084.",
year = "2006",
month = jul,
doi = "10.1109/LCOMM.2006.1673014",
language = "English",
volume = "10",
pages = "564--566",
journal = "IEEE Communications Letters",
issn = "1089-7798",
publisher = "IEEE Communications Letters",
number = "7",
}