Title :
SLA-aware survivability
Author :
Waldman, Helio ; Mello, Darli A A
Author_Institution :
OptiNet, UFABC, Santo Andre
Abstract :
The paper discusses the provision of differentiated guarantees to a population of users who share a network with different requirements for their connections. The basic concept underlying the proposed solutions is the required availability of the connections, both in the long term and during the period covered by the Service Level Agreement. An adequate metric for the latter is provided by the interval availability. The paper discusses how Markov chains may be used to model interval availability during the SLA period.
Keywords :
Markov processes; optical fibre networks; telecommunication network reliability; Markov chains; SLA-aware survivability; adequate metric; model interval availability; service level agreement; user population; Electronic mail; Multiprotocol label switching; Optical fiber cables; Optical fiber networks; Protection; Resilience; Resource management; SONET; Synchronous digital hierarchy; Telecommunication traffic;
Conference_Titel :
Transparent Optical Networks, 2008. ICTON 2008. 10th Anniversary International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Athens
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2625-6
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2626-3
DOI :
10.1109/ICTON.2008.4598652
