A survey of survivability in multi-domain optical networks

  • Authors:
  • Hamza Drid;Bernard Cousin;Miklos Molnar;Samer Lahoud

  • Affiliations:
  • Campus universitaire de Beaulieu, 35042 Rennes CEDEX, France;Campus universitaire de Beaulieu, 35042 Rennes CEDEX, France;Campus universitaire de Beaulieu, 35042 Rennes CEDEX, France and INSA of Rennes, IRISA, 35043 Rennes Cedex, France;Campus universitaire de Beaulieu, 35042 Rennes CEDEX, France

  • Venue:
  • Computer Communications
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Network survivability is becoming an important issue and a topical subject in WDM optical mesh networks. Many works have studied network survivability. However, few works have focused on survivability in multi-domain optical networks. This paper reviews the literature on survivability against failures in multi-domain optical networks. The main objective of this study is to evaluate and analyze existing solutions and to compare their performance in terms of different criteria: resource utilization, ratio of rejected connections and recovery time.