Surviving Multiple Network Failures Using Shared Backup Path Protection
ISCC '03 Proceedings of the Eighth IEEE International Symposium on Computers and Communications
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Survivability in waveband switching optical networks: Challenges and new ideas
Computer Communications
A practical approach to operating survivable WDM networks
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
Backup reprovisioning to remedy the effect of multiple link failures in WDM mesh networks
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications - Part Supplement
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A new survivable algorithm called Self-organizing Shared-Path Protection (SSPP) is proposed to tolerate multi-link failures in wavelength division multiplexing optical networks. In SSPP, ant agents are used to search primary paths, and load balancing is considered in this approach to reduce blocking probability (BP). In the approach of search backup paths, different backup path ant agents use a same kind pheromone and these ant agents are attracted by each other, so different backup paths share more backup resources. In order to tolerate multi-link failures, self-organizing ant agents search new routes for carrying the traffic affected by the failures. Simulation results show that compared with other algorithms, SSPP has lower BP, better resource utilization ratio, and higher protection ability.