The relationship between topology and network throughput of arbitrarily-connected mesh networks is studied. Taking into account nonlinear channel properties, it is shown that throughput decreases logarithmically with physical network size with minor dependence on network ellipticity.
@article{arxiv.2008.06708,
title = {On the Relationship Between Network Topology and Throughput in Mesh Optical Networks},
author = {Daniel Semrau and Shahzaib Durrani and Georgios Zervas and Robert I. Killey and Polina Bayvel},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2008.06708},
year = {2020}
}