New insights on survivability in multi-domain optical networks

  • Authors:
  • Lei Guo;Xingwei Wang;Qingyang Song;Xuetao Wei;Weigang Hou;Ting Yang;Fei Yang

  • Affiliations:
  • College of Information Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang 110004, China and Key Laboratory of Broadband Optical Fiber Transmission and Communication Networks, University of ...;College of Information Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang 110004, China;College of Information Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang 110004, China;Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521, USA;College of Information Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang 110004, China;College of Information Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang 110004, China;College of Information Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang 110004, China

  • Venue:
  • Information Sciences: an International Journal
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

With the development of intelligent optical networks and the general multi-protocol label switching (GMPLS) technique, the seamless convergence between IP network and optical network is no longer be a dream but a practical reality. Similar to the Internet, current optical networks have been divided into multiple domains each of which has its own network provider and management policy. Therefore, the development of multi-domain optical networks will be the trend of new-generation intelligent optical networks, and GMPLS-based survivability for multi-domain optical networks will become a hot topic of research in the future. This paper provides a comprehensive review of the existing survivable schemes in multi-domain optical networks and analyzes the shortcomings of current research. Based on previous studies, we present possible challenges and propose new ideas to design efficient survivable schemes to guide the future work of researchers in multi-domain optical networks.