Spare capacity modelling and its applications in survivable iP-over-optical networks

As the interest in IP-over-optical networks are becoming the preferred core network architecture, survivability has emerged as a major concern for network service providers; a result of the potentially huge traffic volumes that will be supported by optical infrastructure. Therefore, implementing recovery strategies is critical. In addition to the traditional recovery schemes based around protection and restoration mechanisms, pre-allocated restoration represents a potential candidate to effect and maintain network resilience under failure conditions. Preallocated restoration technique is particularly interesting because it provides a trade-off in terms of recovery performance and resources between protection and restoration schemes. In this paper, the pre-allocated restoration performance is investigated under single and dual-link failures considering a distributed GMPLSbased IP/WDM mesh network. Two load-based spare capacity optimisation methods are proposed in this paper; Local Spare Capacity Optimisation (LSCO) and Global Spare Capacity Optimisation (GSCO)

Service level agreement framework for differentiated survivability in GMPLS-based IP-over-optical networks

In the next generation optical internet, GMPLS based IP-over-optical networks, ISPs will be required to support a wide variety of applications each having their own requirements. These requirements are contracted by means of the SLA. This paper describes a recovery framework that may be included in the SLA contract between ISP and customers in order to provide the required level of survivability. A key concern with such a recovery framework is how to present the different survivability alternatives including recovery techniques, failure scenario and layered integration into a transparent manner for customers. In this paper, two issues are investigated. First, the performance of the recovery framework when applying a proposed mapping procedure as an admission control mechanism in the edge router considering a smart-edge simple-core GMPLS-based IP/WDM network is considered. The second issue pertains to the performance of a pre-allocated restoration and its ability to provide protected connections under different failure scenarios

Protection and restoration algorithms for WDM optical networks

Currently, Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) optical networks play a major role in supporting the outbreak in demand for high bandwidth networks driven by the Internet. It can be a catastrophe to millions of users if a single optical fiber is somehow cut off from the network, and there is no protection in the design of the logical topology for a restorative mechanism. Many protection and restoration algorithms are needed to prevent, reroute, and/or reconfigure the network from damages in such a situation. In the past few years, many works dealing with these issues have been reported. Those algorithms can be implemented in many ways with several different objective functions such as a minimization of protection path lengths, a minimization of restoration times, a maximization of restored bandwidths, etc. This thesis investigates, analyzes and compares the algorithms that are mainly aimed to guarantee or maximize the amount of remaining bandwidth still working over a damaged network. The parameters considered in this thesis are the routing computation and implementation mechanism, routing characteristics, recovering computation timing, network capacity assignment, and implementing layer. Performance analysis in terms of the restoration efficiency, the hop length, the percentage of bandwidth guaranteed, the network capacity utilization, and the blocking probability is conducted and evaluated

Scalable shared protection approach for mesh WDM-routed networks

The paper proposes an approach for calculating the protection pool size on each link in a mesh WDMrouted network. The protection pool evaluation is part of a shared protection scheme applied to a failure dependent scenario and based on aggregated information dissemination. Two models based on a probabilistic approach are proposed to provide a scheme that is scalable as the number of optical cross-connects (OXC), fibres and wavelength multiplexing in a core network increases. Precisely, two models based on a binomial and a beta-binomial distribution are presented. The evaluation of the models by simulation shows that both models are attractive propositions to offer protected ¸-services that do not require an absolute protection guarantee offered by (1:1) schemes or shared protection schemes requiring full network state information, or using partial information but with less efficient use of the fibre utilisation

Design of a fast and resource-efficient fault management system in optical networks to suit real-time multimedia applications

Today\u27s telecommunications networks are relying more and more on optical fibers as their physical medium. Currently the Wavelength Division Multiplexing technology enables hundreds of wavelengths to be multiplexed on a single fiber. Using this technology capacity can be dramatically increased, even to the order of Terabits per second. While WDM technology has given a satisfactory answer to the ever-increasing demand for capacity, there is still a problem which needs to be handled efficiently: survivability. Our proposed fault restoration system optimized between restoration cost and speed. We extended the concept of Forward Equivalence Class (FEC) in Multi Protocol Label switching (MPLS) to our proposed fault restoration system. Speed was found to be in the order of 1 to 3 microseconds using predesigned protection, depending on the configuration of the system. Optimization was done between restoration speed and cost by introducing a priority field in the packet header

Providing Survivability In Optical Wdm Mesh Networks Considering Adaptation

Tez (Yüksek Lisans) -- İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi, Fen Bilimleri Enstitüsü, 2007Thesis (M.Sc.) -- İstanbul Technical University, Institute of Science and Technology, 2007Internet kullanımının artışı ile birlikte, hızla büyüyen bant genişliği isteklerini karşılayabilecek olan optik WDM ağları, gelecekteki en uygun Internet omurgaları haline gelmiştir. Oluşabilecek herhangi bir bağlantı hatası, o bağlantı üzerinden geçen tüm ışık yollarının başarısızlığına yol açabilir. Bu yüzden, optik WDM ağları etkili hata bağışıklığı yöntemlerine ihtiyaç duymaktadır.Optik WDM ağlarındaki hata bağışıklığı problemini etkili bir şekilde giderebilmek için son günlerde bir çok yöntem sunulmuştur. Bu yöntemler arasında paylaşılan yol ile koruma yöntemi etkin kaynak kullanımı sağlayabildiğinden, en umut verici yöntemlerden biri olarak görülmektedir. Bu yöntemde yedek ışık yolları, eğer ilişkili birincil ışık yolları karşılıklı olarak farklı ise yani ortak bağ kullanmıyor iseler, dalga boyu paylaşımı yapabilemekdirler. Bu özelliğinden dolayı paylaşılan yol ile koruma yöntemi, yedek ışık yollarına daha az kaynak ayrılmasını sağlar ve diğer koruma yöntemlerinden daha iyi performans gösterir. Bu çalışmada, bir optik WDM ağına dinamik olarak gelen bağlantı isteklerine cevap verilirken, paylaşılan yol ile koruma ve yeniden yönlendirme özelliğini kullanan etkili bir yöntem geliştirilmiştir. Adaptasyon sağlayan paylaşılan yol ile koruma yöntemi olarak adlandıralan yeni yaklaşım, dinamik trafik akışında yedek yolların yol açtığı fazla kaynak tüketimini azaltmak için zaman içinde ağı yeni durumlara adapte edebilen, etkili yani daha çok isteğe cevap verilebilen bir servis sağlayabilmektedir. Bağlantıların öncelik beklentisine göre yeniden yönlendirme yapma özelliğinden dolayı servis seviyesinde anlaşma sağlayabilen bir yaklaşımdır.WDM optical networks are able to meet the rapid growth of bandwidth demands and are considered to be the most appropriate choice of future Internet backbone. However, the failure of a network component such as a fiber link can lead to the failure of all the lightpaths that traverse the failed link. Therefore, the huge bandwidth of WDM also requires efficient survivability mechanisms. Recently, new techniques have been proposed to efficiently deal with this problem in mesh networks. Among them, shared-path protection is a promising candidate because of its desirable resource efficiency, which is a result from effective backup sharing. Backup paths can share wavelength channels, when their corresponding working paths are mutually diverse. Therefore, shared-path protection can outperform other protection techniques based on the dedicated reservation of backup capacity. In this work, we focus on rerouting feature to design an efficient algorithm, called Adaptable Shared Path Protection (ASPP), for dynamic provisioning of shared-path-protected connections in optical mesh networks employing WDM. In particular, backup-channel capacity reservation in shared-protection causes too much resource consumption parallel to network load. ASPP provides the adaptation of network against dynamic traffic, and decreases blocking probability thanks to rerouting capability of paths. Also, ASPP can present SLA by providing an uninterrupted traffic flow for connection requests come with a high priority.Yüksek LisansM.Sc