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Recovery from control plane failures in GMPLS‐controlled optical networks
Author(s) -
Wu Jing,
Montuno Delfin Y.,
Mouftah Hussein T.,
Wang Guoqiang,
Dasylva Abel C.
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
international journal of communication systems
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.344
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1099-1131
pISSN - 1074-5351
DOI - 10.1002/dac.552
Subject(s) - computer network , computer science , forwarding plane , node (physics) , routing and wavelength assignment , initialization , routing protocol , routing control plane , protocol (science) , routing (electronic design automation) , wavelength division multiplexing , network packet , wavelength , optics , medicine , physics , alternative medicine , pathology , quantum mechanics , programming language
The health status of the control plane and the data plane of a GMPLS‐controlled optical network is independent in the physically separated control network implementation. In most control plane designs, besides the topology information, the entities of the routing protocol only record the number of available wavelengths on each link. However, the status of each wavelength is maintained by the entities of the signalling protocol. Without recovery ability of the signalling protocol CR‐LDP, a failure in the control plane will result in the permanent loss of the status information of wavelengths. A mechanism to recover the status information of the wavelengths is proposed. A downstream node maintains a label information database (LID) about assignable (free) labels in each incoming link. A copy of LID is redundantly stored in the upstream node as a label information mirror (LIM). A systematic procedure is proposed to synchronize the contents of a LIM and the corresponding LID. The initialization of a new LDP session with the enhanced recovery mechanism will guarantee the revival of the status information of wavelengths. It can recover multiple control channel failures, but it only applies to single node failure among any pair of adjacent nodes. © Crown copyright 2002. Reproduced with the permission of Her Majesty's Stationery Office. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.