Differentiated-resilience provisioning for the wavelength-routed optical network

Author

Dong, Song ; Phillips, Chris ; Friskney, Robert

Author_Institution

Queen Mary, Univ. of London, UK

Volume

24

Issue

2

fYear

2006

Firstpage

667

Lastpage

673

Abstract

This paper evaluates the performance of a new scheme for the differentiated-resilience provisioning of lightpaths in a wavelength-routed optical network. A novel differentiated-resilience optical-services model (DROSM) is proposed to enhance the performance of the optical network. First, an analysis of optical-resilience options is presented. Then, a classification of optical services according to their resilience requirement is proposed with respective resilience options. In particular, a novel link-management mechanism is proposed to assist the routing and wavelength allocation. Our numerical results show that differentiated-resilience provisioning has significant merit over that of single resilience provisioning in the optical network.

Keywords

optical fibre networks; telecommunication network management; telecommunication network routing; telecommunication services; differentiated-resilience provisioning; link-management mechanism; optical network; optical service classification; optical-services model; wavelength allocation; wavelength routing; IP networks; Multiprotocol label switching; Optical control; Optical devices; Optical fiber networks; Optical wavelength conversion; Resilience; Telecommunication traffic; Virtual private networks; Web and internet services; Dynamic provisioning; optical networking; restoration;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Lightwave Technology, Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0733-8724

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JLT.2005.861917

Filename

1593735