A protection tree scheme for first-failure protection and second-failure restoration in optical networks

  • Authors:
  • Fangcheng Tang;Lu Ruan

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, Iowa State University, Ames, IA;Department of Computer Science, Iowa State University, Ames, IA

  • Venue:
  • ICCNMC'05 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Networking and Mobile Computing
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Recently, a single-link failure protection scheme using protection tree has been proposed in [6].This scheme is scalable in that the protection tree can be adjusted dynamically as the network topology changes. A drawback of this scheme is that it may not be able to find a backup path for certain network links even if the network is 2-connected. In this paper, we first present a new protection tree scheme that can recover from any single-link failure in a 2-connected network. We then give an Integer Linear Program (ILP) formulation to compute a protection tree and allocate spare capacity on the network links so that the total spare capacity required is minimized. Finally, we present a distributed algorithm for fast double-link failure restoration using a protection tree. Simulation results show that around 70% of the double-link failures can be restored by our scheme even though the spare capacity in the network is planned for single-link failures. In addition, our scheme can achieve almost 100% restorability for double-link failures when spare capacity in the network is sufficiently large.