Automatic protection switching for multicasting in optical mesh networks

Author

Médard, Muriel ; Finn, Steve ; Barry, Rick

Author_Institution

Lincoln Lab., MIT, Lexington, MA, USA

fYear

1997

Firstpage

314

Lastpage

315

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;

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.1997.719923

Filename

719923