A new approach for designing fault-tolerant WDM networks

  • Authors:
  • Arunita Jaekel;Subir Bandyopadhyay;Yash Aneja

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Windsor, Computer Science, 401 Sunset Avenue, Windsor, Canada N9B 3P4;University of Windsor, Computer Science, 401 Sunset Avenue, Windsor, Canada N9B 3P4;University of Windsor, Computer Science, 401 Sunset Avenue, Windsor, Canada N9B 3P4

  • Venue:
  • Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

In recent years, path protection has emerged as a widely accepted technique for designing survivable WDM networks. This approach is attractive, since it is able to provide bandwidth guarantees in the presence of link failures. However, it requires allocating resources for backup lightpaths, which remain idle under normal fault-free conditions. In this paper, we introduce a new approach for designing fault-tolerant WDM networks, based on the concept of survivable routing. Survivable routing of a logical topology ensures that the lightpaths are routed in such a way that a single link failure does not disconnect the network. When a topology is generated using our approach, it is guaranteed to have a survivable routing. We further ensure that the logical topology is able to handle the entire traffic demand after any single link failure. We first present an ILP that optimally designs a survivable logical topology, and then propose a heuristic for larger networks. Experimental results demonstrate that this new approach is able to provide guaranteed bandwidth, and is much more efficient in terms of resource utilization, compared to both dedicated and shared path protection.