Minimum-cost survivable virtual optical network mapping in flexible bandwidth optical networks

Abstract

This paper addresses the minimum network cost problem for survivable virtual optical network mapping in flexible bandwidth optical networks. We develop an ILP model and the LBSD (the largest bandwidth requirement (LB) of virtual links versus the shortest distance (SD)) mapping approach to minimize the network cost for a given set of VONs, and we introduce two baseline mapping approaches, named LCLC (the largest computing resources' requirement versus the largest computing resources' provisioning (LC)) and LCSD (the largest computing resources' requirement versus shortest distance) mapping approaches, for comparison. Simulation results show that LBSD can achieve network cost near the ILP solutions in a 6-node network. Also, LBSD greatly reduces the cost, the spectrum usage, and the number of regenerators compared to LCLC and LCSD in the 6-node and NSFNET networks.