Cycle-Based Optical Self-Healing Network Provisioning for Resource Effciency and Robustness

Abstract

In this paper, a cycle-based network recovery method for optical mesh networks is studied. The study in this paper concentrates on improving two performance requirements on network recovery: efficient spare resource utilization, and robustness for multiple failures. The proposed method uses multiple ring-covers and performs distributed link restoration using preplanned logical cycles embedded in physical mesh topologies. This method provides fast and simple recovery operation by exploiting the characteristics of ring topology and also provides efficient resource utilization by using multiple backup paths per link to improve the sharability of overall spare resources in the networks. With this method, layered reliability can be provided to network services by enabling priority-based robustness against multiple failures. The performance results reveal the trade-off between the resource efficiency for single failure and the robustness for multiple failures, and show the preconfiguration of a few logical cycles per link can provide enhanced resource efficiency and priority-based hierarchical robustness.