Traffic Engineering and Restoration in Optical Packet Switching Networks by means of Ant Colony Optimization

Author

Pavani, Gustavo Sousa ; Waldman, Helio

Author_Institution

State Univ. of Campinas, Campinas

fYear

2006

fDate

1-5 Oct. 2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

10

Abstract

In this paper, we propose an ACO-based algorithm that can adaptively balance the network load to mitigate congestion, and hence reduce the overall loss of packets in an OPS network. In addition, the proposed algorithm is fault-tolerant, with the recovery from a failed link or node starting even before detection and localization of the failure event. Since both routing and restoration rely on pheromone levels laid by ant-like agents, any failure will be promptly perceived by some ants, which will then try to circumvent the affected part of the network, thus adapting the routing to the new topology.

Keywords

optical fibre networks; optimisation; packet switching; resource allocation; telecommunication network routing; telecommunication network topology; telecommunication traffic; ant colony optimization; network load balancing; network restoration; network routing; network topology; network traffic engineering; optical packet switching; Ant colony optimization; Circuit topology; Computer networks; Network topology; Optical fiber networks; Optical losses; Optical packet switching; Routing; Telecommunication traffic; Traffic control;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Broadband Communications, Networks and Systems, 2006. BROADNETS 2006. 3rd International Conference on

Conference_Location

San Jose, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-0425-4

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-0425-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/BROADNETS.2006.4374329

Filename

4374329