A 10/7 + " Approximation for Minimizing the Number of ADMs in SONET Rings

  • Authors:
  • Mordechai Shalom;Shmuel Zaks

  • Affiliations:
  • Technion, Israel;Technion, Israel

  • Venue:
  • BROADNETS '04 Proceedings of the First International Conference on Broadband Networks
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

SONET ADMs are dominant cost factors in WDM/SONET rings. Whereas most previous papers on the topic concentrated on the number of wavelengths assigned to a given set of lightpaths, more recent papers argue that the number of ADMs is a more realistic cost measure. Some of these works discuss various heuristic algorithms for this problem, and the best known result is a 3/2 approximation in [Traffic partition in wdm/sonet rings to minimize sonet adms]. Through the study of the re-lation between this problem and the problem of finding maximum disjoint rings in a given set of lightpaths we manage to shed more light onto this problem and to develop a 10/7 + 驴 approximation for it.