Self-protecting networking using dynamic p-cycle construction within link capacity constraint

  • Authors:
  • Weiyi Zhang;Xiaojiang Du;Kendall Nygard;Tie Wang

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND;Department of Computer Science, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND;Department of Computer Science, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND;Yahoo! Inc, Santa Clara, CA

  • Venue:
  • ICC'09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE international conference on Communications
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

The p-cycle design problem has been extensively studied because it can provide both ring-like fast self-protection speed and spare capacity efficiency of path protection scheme. However, p-cycle provisioning for dynamic traffic has not been fully addressed. Most related works have not considered link capacity in the construction of p-cycles, which may cause problems in practice because the protection paths may not have enough backup bandwidth. In this paper, with the consideration of link capacity, we present a sufficient and necessary condition that guarantees p-cycles for providing enough protection bandwidth. Based on this condition, we propose an effective solution to provide connections for dynamic requests with the property that each link used for a connection is protected by a p-cycle. Simulation results show that our dynamic p-cycle provisioning solution outperforms the traditional path protection scheme.