Fairness of sharing protection for multicast in WDM networks

Abstract

In this paper, the sharing schemes of multicast in survivable Wavelength-Division Multiplexed (WDM) networks are studied and the concept of Shared Risk Link Group (SRLG) is considered. While the network resources are shared by the backup paths, the sharing way is possible to make the backup paths selfish. This selfishness leads the redundant hops of the backup route and a large number of primary lightpaths to share one backup link. The sharing schemes, especially, the self-sharing and cross-sharing, are investigated to avoid the selfishness when computing the backup light-tree. In order to decrease the selfishness of the backup paths, it is important to make the sharing links fair to be used. There is a trade-off between the self-sharing and cross-sharing, which is adjusted through simulation to adapt the sharing degree of each sharing scheme and save the network resources.