Dynamic Provisioning of Survivable Heterogeneous Multicast and Unicast Traffic in WDM Networks

The problem of protecting purely multicast connections in WDM mesh network has recently started to receive some attention in the literature. In fact, WDM traffic is heterogeneous in nature and only part of the traffic is multicast and the rest is unicast, therefore we expect the presence of both unicast and multicast traffic in future optical networks. This paper studies the problem of dynamic provisioning of survivable heterogeneous unicast and multicast traffic in WDM networks. Specifically, we propose new protection schemes to provision and protect unicast and multicast connection requests against singlelink failures in WDM-mesh networks. The simulation results of the proposed protection schemes are compared with each others and with those found in the literature. The results showed that our proposed scheme TP-OSPT outperforms all other schemes for moderate and large multicast group size. On the other hand, our proposed scheme OCR performs the best for small multicast group size.