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Instantaneous recovery of unicast connections in transport networks: Routing versus coding
The importance of reducing recovery time and latency, e.g., by adding redundancy to the
connection is increasing in today’s communication networks. Thus, in this paper we investigate
dedicated protection approaches which completely avoid control plane signaling and
switching matrix reconfiguration when a network failure occurs, i.e., provide quasi instantaneous
recovery from failures. As these approaches may require a huge amount of redundancy,
we introduce a dynamic routing framework, called General Dedicated Protection
(GDP) which provides optimal resilient capacity allocation against multiple link failures,
both for routing and network coding. The computational complexity and a theoretical lower
bound for GDP will be presented, too. We show the efficiency of the GDP framework
through thorough simulations. Finally, we demonstrate that the necessary modules for
GDP can be easily adopted in Software Defined Networks (SDNs) with the help of the
OpenFlow protocol. In our proof-of-concept implementation we are following the
Network Function Virtualization (NFV) approach, which allows the practical deployment
of GDP in transport networks