• Journal of KIISE:Information Networking
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• v.27 no.2
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• pp.187-196
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• 2000

Failures in ATM networks can occur at virtual path (VP) links, virtual path switches, and virtual channel (VC) switches. Restoration schemes have been proposed for VP link and VP switch failures, however, none for VC switch failures. In general, VC switches are used for edge nodes in protection domains. Since even only one VC switch failure can cause a critical problem, new restoration schemes for VC switch failures are highly required. Restoration schemes at the VP level proposed so far can be categorized into those using the flooding algorithm and those using the backup virtual path (BVP) concept. Even though the latter cannot handle unpredictable failures, it has some advantages such as fast restoration and low spare capacity requirement. In this paper, we propose new restoration schemes using a new type of BVPs to handle VC switch failures. The simulation results show that the proposed schemes can restore virtual connection failures due to VC switch failures without degrading restorability for VP failures.

• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.26 no.8
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• pp.949-956
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• 1999

이 논문에서는 ATM (Asynchronous Transfer Mode) 방식의 초고속망의 장애 발생 시 이용자 연결의 QoS (Quality of Service)를 고려하여 복구할 수 있게 하는 보호 망 설계 방안을 제시한다. 제시한 설계 방안에 기초한 비용과 복구 특성을 분석과 모의 실험을 통해 알아본다. 제안하는 망에서의 복구는 분리 VP 그룹 (Disjoint Virtual Path Group, DVPG) 을 사용하는 상태 독립적 (State- independent) 방식으로 복구된다. ATM 망의 운용 및 보호 VP 할당과 용량 배정 문제를 정의하고 이를 바탕으로 최소의 비용을 갖는 VP 망을 설계한다. 망의 고장 시 기존 노드간의 VP 연결은 미리 할당된 링크 또는 노드 분리 보호 VP 경로를 따라 간단한 복구 알고리즘에 의해 빠르게 복구된다. QoS의 고려는 추가 비용을 필요로 하지만 정확한 이용자 연결의 복구를 실현하며, 분리 VP 그룹의 적용은 비용을 상승시키지만, 빠른 복구와 복수의 고장에 대처할 수 있는 방안이 된다.Abstract A cost evaluation of protection scheme for VP-based ATM network is presented here and its related characteristics are evaluated. The proposed and evaluated scheme is a state-independent restoration scheme using a disjoint path group. For fast and simple restoration of failed connections, link disjoint or node disjoint VP groups (DVPG) were utilized in this paper. A VP assignment and capacity planning problem is formulated. When failure occurs, the failed working VPs are switched to the protection VPs of disjoint path groups with a simple restoration scheme. And, cost evaluation and restoration characteristics are presented. The consideration of multiple QoS (Quality of Service) levels and disjoint path group protection scheme require additional network cost but acquire fit and fast restoration.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2000.06c
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• pp.31-34
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• 2000

Genetic Algorithm is well known as the efficient algorithm which can solve a difficult optimization problem. Recently, there has been increasing interest in applying genetic algorithm to problem related to network design. In this paper, we propose a two-step genetic algorithm for designing a optimum virtual path network(VPN) for a given physical network and traffic demand. The first step is a routing step in which a route is found between every node pair in the network. In the second step, paths are assigned as VPs so as to minimize the total number of VPs configured, the number of VPs carried by a link, and the VP hopcount. We study the performance of the propose algorithm through simulation. The result shows that the VPN generated by the proposed algorithm is good in minimizing the number of VPs configured, the load on a link, and the VP hopcount.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.19 no.11
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• pp.2199-2214
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• 1994

In order to sufficiently utilize the potential effectiveness of ATM networks, systematic and effective network management and control systems must be employed. In addition to network design, planning, and call routing techniques used in traditional circuit-switched networks. ATM networks can provide logical VP(Virtual Path) reconfiguration capabilities which can adapt to changes in the network environment. With a proper application of the VP reconfiguration technique, ATM networks can reduce the overhead of frequent network redesign and the overhead of call routing processing. However, ATM VP reconfiguration is a very complex and difficult problem which consists of many facets of optimization subproblems such as VP routing. VP sizing, VP terminating point location and VC routing. Most previous research on the ATM logical network reconfiguration problem dealt with the subset of the problem. This paper mathematically formulates the ATM network reconfiguration problem completely considering all subproblems. Since it is very difficult to derive the optimal solution of the formulated problem, we develop a heuristic method based on a Max min bandwidth allocation principle. We show the feasibility of the proposed heuristic method with a simple example.

• Journal of the Korea Society for Simulation
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• v.8 no.4
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• pp.125-136
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• 1999

In the forthcoming public ATM/B-ISDN, the efficient resource management with pre-planned transit networking which public domain NNI signaling is essential to maintain high network utilization and to assure QoS to the multimedia service users. For this purpose the transit networks must be managed according to the bearer service capability which is defined by ATM Forum and ITU-T. In this paper, we introduce an implementation of ATM transit networking with ATM VP-XC(Virtual Path cross-connect) and US(Network Management System). The functions of ATM VP-XC and NMS have been simulated with OPNET 6.1 modules. We implemented the F4 OAM functions of ATM VP connection according to the ITU-T 1.610 recommendation. Also, the ATM VP transit networking is managed by the NMS according to the connection management architecture of the TWN(Telecommunications Management Network) /TINA ( Telecommunications Information Networking Architecture).

• ETRI Journal
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• v.20 no.2
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• pp.171-191
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• 1998

In this paper, we propose a new heuristic design algorithm for the virtual path (VP)-based ATM network with multiple traffic classes, in which QoS constraints associated with traffic class are taken into account. The minimum bandwidth of VP required to carry given amount of traffic is obtained by utilizing an equivalent bandwidth concept, and the route of each VP is placed so that the network cost is minimized while the QoS requirement is fulfilled To evaluate our design algorithm, we consider two kinds of traffic: voice traffic as low speed service and still picture traffic as high speed service. Through numerical examples, we demonstrate that our design method can achieve an efficient use of network resources, which results in providing a cost-effective VP-based ATM network.

• Journal of the Korean Operations Research and Management Science Society
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• v.23 no.4
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• pp.187-201
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• 1998

In ATM networks with high capacity, the effect of failures on transmission links or nodes can be catastrophic, so that the issue of survivability is of great importance. In this paper. we consider the routing problem for working and backup virtual paths(VPs). To accomplish a higher survivability. routing the two kinds of VPs should be taken into account at the same time because backup VP routing depends on the working VP routing. A coevolutionary algorithm is employed to solve the problem for simultaneously routing of working and backup VPs. To develop an efficient coevolutionary algorithm for the problem. structure of populations, encoding method, neighborhood, and genetic operators are studied in this paper. The results of extensive experiments are reported. The performance comparison of the proposed algorithm with a conventional genetic algorithm and existing heuristics shows that our approach is promising.

• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.26 no.1
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• pp.53-63
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• 1999

ATM 네트워크에서 다양한 트래픽을 특성과 QoS 요구사항을 갖는 멀티미디어 서비스의 종단간 품질을 만족시키면서 망 자원을 효율적으로 이용하기 위해서는 가상경로(virtual path : VP) 의 적절한 배치 및 대역 할당을 통한 논리적 망의 구성, 호 접속 시의 종적 경로 설정, 그리고 그와 연계된 효율적인 동적 대역 관리가 필수적으로 요구된다. 본 논문에서는 새로운 호가 시도될 때 논리적 망의 설계에서 설정된 가상경로의 대역으로 호의 품질 요구사항을 만족 시킬수 없거나 또는 미리 설정해 놓은 가상경로연결(VP Connection) 이 존재하지 않을 경우에 물리적 링크의 잔여용량을 기반으로 적절한 가상경로를 선택하여 용량을 재조정하기 위한 최적 관리 모델로서 MHR (Minimum Hop Route), MCR(Maximum Capacity Route), 그리고 MRCR (MaxMin Residual Capacity Route)방식을 제안하고 이에 대한 최적화 정식을 제안하였다. 제안된 각 최적화 모델에 대한 해를 노드의 수가 m인 네트워크에서 O(m2)의 복잡도로 구할 수 있는 알고리즘을 제시하고 시뮬레이션을 통해 제안된 최적화 모델이 망의 성능에 미치는 영향을 평균 호 차단률 평균 이용 링크의 수 , 그리고 노드 쌍간의 호 차단률의 분산등에 의해 망 운용의 효율성과 공평성등을 비교분석하였다.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.9-22
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• 1999

This paper considers a problem of configuring both physical backbone and logical virtual path (VP) networks in a reconfigurable asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) network where links are subject to failures. The objective is to determine jointly the VP assignment, the capacity assignment of physical links and the bandwidth allocation of VPs, and the routing assignment of traffic demand at least cost. The network cost includes backbone link capacity expansion cost and penalty cost for not satisfying the maximum throughput of the traffic due to link failures or insufficient link capacities. The problem is formulated as a zero-one non-linear mixed integer programming problem, for which an effective solution procedure is developed by using a Lagrangean relaxation technique for finding a lower bound and a heuristic method exploited for improving the upper bound of any intermediate solution. The solution procedure is tested for its effectiveness with various numerical examples.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.21 no.11
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• pp.2886-2896
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• 1996

The Type of Service based multicast routing algorithm is necessary to support efficiently herogeneous applications in ATM network. In this paper I propose the Constrained Multicast Tree with Virtual Destination(DMTVD) heuristic algorithm as least cost multicast routing algorithm. The service is categorized into two types, as delay sensitive and non in CMTVD algorithm. For the delay sensitive service type, the cost optimized route is the Minimum Cost Stenier Tree connecting all the destination node group, virtual destination node group and source node with least costs, subject to the delay along the path being less than the maximum allowable end to end delay. The other side for the non-delay sensitive service, the cost optimized route is the MCST connecting all the multicast groups with least costs, subject to the traffic load is balanced in the network. The CMTVD algorithm is based on the Constrained Multicasting Tree algorithm but regards the nodes branching multiple destination nodes as virtural destination node. The experimental results show that the total route costs is enhanced 10%-15% than the CTM algorithm.