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Wavelength retuning without service interruption in an all‐optical survivable network
Author(s) -
Hu Rose Qingyang,
Hu Weiwei,
Jin Mingzhou,
Qian Yi
Publication year - 2009
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.995
Subject(s) - backup , computer science , blocking (statistics) , computer network , path (computing) , heuristic , scheme (mathematics) , call blocking , path protection , real time computing , distributed computing , quality of service , wavelength , wavelength division multiplexing , mathematics , mathematical analysis , database , artificial intelligence , physics , optoelectronics
This paper proposes a new wavelength retuning (WRT) scheme in an all‐optical WDM network. Compared with the existing WRT schemes developed for all‐optical networks, which can alleviate the wavelength‐continuity constraint but cannot avoid service interruption or data loss, the proposed scheme is able to alleviate the wavelength‐continuity constraint and reduce the connection blocking probability with no service interruption to the on‐going traffic. This is achieved by allocating two routes, one for active path and one for backup path, to each incoming connection request and conducting WRT only on the backup path. The backup path provides an alternate path in case of a failure, while the active path carries traffic under normal conditions. Thus, WRT on the backup path will not cause any impact on data transmission. An optimal backup path WRT scheme and a heuristic algorithm are developed and the performance evaluation on the proposed schemes is presented. The simulation results show that the proposed optimal scheme reduces the connection blocking probability by 46.8% on average, while the proposed heuristic scheme reduces the blocking probability by 28.3% on average, all compared with the scheme without WRT. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.