Perfect Shuffle Optical Frequency Division Multiplexing (PS/OFDM)

Shuffle Net is a Multichannel Multihop network in the Perfect Shuffle configuration that allows for network concurrency without the requirement of optical components which are not yet available. We propose to apply Optical Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) to Shuffle-Net, thereby substantially reducing the number of optical transmitters and receivers in the network. With OFDM, each node utilizes one tunable transmitter (and receiver) to successively transmit (or receive) on all its channels. This, however, creates a tuning range problem.