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  <dc:title>Optimal Placement of Wavelength Converters in Trees and Trees of Rings</dc:title>
  <dc:creator>Wan, Peng-jun</dc:creator>
  <dc:creator>Frieder, Ophir</dc:creator>
  <dc:creator>Liu, Liwu</dc:creator>
  <dc:description>A method for determining an optimal placement of wavelength converters in an optical network while optimizing bandwidth use in which a skeleton undirected graph of a WDM network is generated, a contraction graph is constructed from the skeleton undirected graph, and a minimum vertex cover of the contraction graph is determined.</dc:description>
  <dc:description>Sponsorship: Illinois Institute of Technology</dc:description>
  <dc:description>United States Patent</dc:description>
  <dc:date>2009-05-14</dc:date>
  <dc:date>2004-08-03</dc:date>
  <dc:type>Patent</dc:type>
  <dc:format>application/pdf</dc:format>
  <dc:identifier>islandora:9801</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>6,772,102</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>http://hdl.handle.net/10560/2449</dc:identifier>
  <dc:language>en</dc:language>
  <dc:rights>No Copyright - United States</dc:rights>
  <dc:rights>http://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/</dc:rights>
  <dc:rights>Open Access</dc:rights>
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