Admission control policies in flow-aware networks

In this paper, the admission control policies proposed for Cross-Protect routers in Flow-Aware Networks (FAN) are compared. A Multilayer FAN (MFAN) architecture defines policies to decide which flows are more suitable to be transmitted through the optical layer in case of congestion. In this work, we evaluate how to include the information of such policies in the admission control process. As a result of the analysis, a new admission control strategy is proposed. This solution inherits the advantages from already established admission control proposals while ensuring fast acceptance times of new streaming flows.