Link failure restoration in WDM optical transport networks and the effect of wavelength conversion

Author

Baroni, Stefano ; Bayvel, Polina

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Electr. Eng., Univ. Coll. London, UK

fYear

1997

Firstpage

123

Lastpage

124

Abstract

In this work we analyze the consequences of link failure restoration. By extending a previously given algorithm we analyze all single link failures in several existing or planned network topologies, namely the PJ1PANet, NSFNet, UKNet and EON, to evaluate the new wavelength requirements. A full logical restoration is achieved by rerouting only the lightpaths passing via the failed link or by allowing the restoration wavelength to be changed, while maintaining logical end-to-end transparency

Keywords

optical fibre networks; telecommunication network reliability; telecommunication traffic; wavelength division multiplexing; EON; NSFNet; PJ1PANet; UKNet; WDM optical transport networks; algorithm; fibre link failure restoration; full logical restoration; light path rerouting; logical end-to-end transparency; optical wavelength conversion; planned network topologies; restoration wavelength; single link failures; wavelength requirements; Converters; Failure analysis; Intelligent networks; Network topology; Optical fiber networks; Optical wavelength conversion; Telecommunication traffic; Traffic control; WDM networks; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Fiber Communication. OFC 97., Conference on

Conference_Location

Dallas, TX

Print_ISBN

1-55752-480-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/OFC.1997.719749

Filename

719749