On the Multilayer Planning of Filterless Optical Networks With OTN Encryption

Abstract

With enhanced cost-effectiveness, filterless optical networks (FONs) have been considered as a promising candidate for future optical infrastructure. However, as the transmission in FON relies on the “select-and-broadcast” scenario, it is more vulnerable to eavesdropping. Therefore, encrypting the communications in FONs will be indispensable, and this can be realized by introducing the optical transport network (OTN) encryption technologies that leverage high-speed encryption cards (ECs) to protect the integrity of OTN payload frames. In this paper, we study the problem of security-aware multilayer planning of FONs with OTN encryption. We first formulate a mixed integer linear programming (MILP) model (i.e., w-MILP) to solve the problem exactly. Then, to reduce the time complexity of problem-solving, we transform w-MILP into two correlated MILP models for establishing fiber trees for an FON (t-MILP) and planning flows in the fiber trees (s-MILP), respectively. The optimization in t-MILP is further transformed into a weighted set partitioning problem, which can be solved time-efficiently. As for s-MILP, we propose a polynomial-time approximation algorithm based on linear programming (LP) relaxation and randomized rounding. Extensive simulations verify the performance of our proposals.