Research Article

Universal Method for Constructing Fault-Tolerant Optical Routers Using RRW

Table 4

The insertion loss comparison of optical routers based on our method and other reliable optical routers for port-to-port communications.

RoutersMaximum IL (dB)Minimum IL (dB)Average IL (dB)
DefaultBackupDefaultBackupDefaultBackup

RO-Uni-0.955-1.36-0.53-0.53-0.75-1.101
RO-Votex-1.28-1.45-0.59-0.73-0.87-1.127
FTTDOR-1.365-2.245-0.115-0.115-0.76-0.98
NRFT-2.185-2.705-0.12-0.12-0.93-1.48
RRW-crux-0.77-1.29-0.23-0.23-0.56-0.9
FT-crux-0.71-1.72-0.15-0.15-0.51-0.73
RRW-Cygnus-0.86-1.28-0.28-0.28-0.64-0.98
FT-Cygnus-0.8-1.84-0.22-0.22-0.57-0.94