Title :
Automatic protection switching for multicasting in optical mesh networks
Author :
Médard, Muriel ; Finn, Steve ; Barry, Rick
Author_Institution :
Lincoln Lab., MIT, Lexington, MA, USA
Abstract :
Reliability in optical networks is a growing area of concern as high-bandwidth networks are expanded and interconnected. Even if robust operating conditions are established, redundancy is necessary to preclude catastrophic loss of data in case of failure of a link or of a node in a network. We shall give a brief overview of the common approaches to failure recovery, discuss the related topological issues and present a new approach to multicasting, which reduces topological constraints to a provable minimum
Keywords :
fault trees; optical fibre networks; protection; redundancy; telecommunication congestion control; telecommunication network management; telecommunication network reliability; telecommunication network routing; telecommunication switching; automatic protection switching; directed trees; failure recovery; high-bandwidth networks; multicasting; optical mesh networks; redundancy; reliability; topological issues; Bandwidth; Costs; High speed optical techniques; Intelligent networks; Mesh networks; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber networks; Protection switching; SONET; Switches;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communication. OFC 97., Conference on
Conference_Location :
Dallas, TX
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-480-7
DOI :
10.1109/OFC.1997.719923
