The problem of synthetically generating IP traffic matrices: initial recommendations
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
LSP partial spatial-protection in MPLS over WDM optical networks
IEEE Transactions on Communications
Grooming and protection with availability guarantees in multilayer optical networks
ONDM'09 Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Optical Network Design and Modeling
Multilayer Protection with Availability Guarantees in Optical WDM Networks
Journal of Network and Systems Management
Survey on dependable IP over fiber networks
Dependable Systems
A novel approach to provision differentiated services in survivable IP-over-WDM networks
Optical Switching and Networking
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We study an approach to quality-of-service (QoS) that offers end-users the choice between two service classes defined according to their level of transmission protection. The fully protected (FP) class offers end-users a guarantee of survivability in the case of a single-link failure; all FP traffic is protected using a 1:1 protection scheme at the wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) layer. The best effort protected (BEP) class is not protected; instead restoration at the IP layer is provided. The FP service class mimics what Internet users receive today. The BEP traffic is designed to run over the large amounts of unused bandwidth that exist in today's Internet. The goal is to increase the load carried on backbone networks without reducing the QoS received by existing customers. To support two such services, we have to solve two problems: the off-line problem of mapping logical links to pairs of disjoint fiber paths, and an on-line scheduling problem for differentiating packets from two classes at the IP layer. We provide an algorithm based on a Tabu Search meta-heuristic to solve the mapping problem, and a simple but efficient scheduler based on weighted fair queueing for service differentiation at the IP layer. We consider numerous requirements that carriers face and illustrate the tradeoffs they induce. We demonstrate that we can successfully increase the total network load by a factor between three and ten and still meet all the carrier requirements.