Terminal reliability evaluation of the Augmented Data Vortex all optical interconnection network

Abstract

The Augmented Data Vortex switch has been proposed in our earlier publications as a high capacity, high throughput, and low-latency all optical packet switched interconnection network for optical switching that can overcome major challenges of all optical packet switching [1, 2]. Recently there has been much analysis and comparison of optical multistage interconnection networks (OMINs) from the aspect of reliability, the focus of this analysis being either terminal reliability (TR) or network reliability (NR). Since the ADV switch is based on a new topology, these issues need to be considered in addition to other performance factors such as latency, throughput, etc. In our earlier work we evaluated the fault tolerance and network reliability of ADV [1]. In this paper we present the terminal reliability evaluation of ADV.