Optical access, or Fiber-To-The-Home (FTTH), has long been considered a final solution to the problem of upgrading the current bottlenecked access to the one capable of delivering future broadband, integratedservices. The high cost of large-scale deployment of fiber and optical network systems in the field under traditional point-to-point architecture, however, is a major economic barrier to th...

Advances in optical technology have increased the interest for multiprocessor architectures based on lightwave networks because of the vast bandwidth available. In this paper we propose a passive star multi-hop lightwave network called stack-Kautz, based on the Kautz graph. We show that this architecture is very cost-effective with respect to its resources requirements. We also propose control ...