An Improved Shared-Path Protection Algorithm for Double-Link Failures in Meshed WDM Optical Networks

  • Wang, Xingwei (College of Information Science and Engineering, Northeastern University) ;
  • Guo, Lei (College of Information Science and Engineering, Northeastern University) ;
  • Li, Lemin (Key Lab of Broadband Optical Fiber Transmission and Communication Networks, University of Electronic Science and Technology) ;
  • Wei, Xuetao (Department of Computer of Science and Engineering, University of California)
  • Published : 2008.09.30

Abstract

In this paper, we investigate survivability in wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) mesh networks and propose a new algorithm called improved shared-path protection (ISPP) to completely tolerate the double-link failures. Compared with previous algorithms for protecting double-link failures, i.e., shared-path protection (SPP) and shared-link protection (SLP), the advantage of ISPP is to allow primary paths and backup paths to share the mixed wavelength-links based on the proposed new rules in which some primary wavelength-links can be changed to mixed wavelength-links, which can be shared by primary paths and backup paths. In addition, some mixed wavelength-links also can be shared by different backup paths for saving resources. Simulation results show that ISPP algorithm performs better in resource utilization ratio and blocking probability than conventional SPP and SLP algorithms.

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