The 1st International Workshop on Survivable and Robust Optical Networks (IWSRON 2013) Preface

Providing reliable, robust, and energy-efficient mechanisms maintaining connections with the minimum allocated resources over a shared-mesh path restoration scheme in WDM optical networks is one of the main service providers’ goals. However, in some cases, the requested parameters in a service level agreement are beyond the capacity of a network, and a connection may typically be blocked. To give the customer a chance to choose another provider, or in the case of having only one provider, to comply with the provider’s network capacity, new SLA-based and priority-aware architectures and mechanisms are required to be introduced to provide better services to shared mesh protected optical networks.