A technique for obtaining multidomain operation of Gunn diodes is proposed. Device impedance is increased, leading to large potential increases in output power. The precision required of the doping profile has been estimated by simulation and appears to be within the capabilities of molecular beam epitaxy. Estimates of output power, taking thermal effects into account, indicate that in many cases an N‐domain diode can produce N2 times as much power as a single‐domain diode. For example, it should be possible to obtain 1.8 W from a three‐domain device oscillating at 30 GHz.
With unicast, the metric is used to determine a low-power path between sources and destinations. The source and destination entities could be attached to Autonomous Systems (ASes) or to routing areas within the Autonomous System. Determining a low-power path within an Autonomous System provides a unique challenge as the topology of the constituent areas may not be known. To that end, we propose the use of a selective leak technique for disclosing low-power paths. Additionally, the proposed method can also be used to determine disjoint or redundant paths for load-balancing or fault tolerance. With multicast, the metric serves the twin purpose of finding low-power multicast paths as well as multicast replication points. Once low-power paths in either the unicast or the multicast cases are identified, then currently available traffic engineering techniques could be used to route the data packets.
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