Expand this Topic clickable element to expand a topic
Skip to content
Optica Publishing Group

Experimental Demonstration of a GMPLS-enabled Impairment-Aware Lightpath Restoration Scheme

Not Accessible

Your library or personal account may give you access

Abstract

Fast lightpath restoration becomes particularly challenging in all-optical networks. First, the optical transparency complicates failure localization and isolation procedures, as loss of light alarms stemming from a failure propagate downstream from the failure point. Besides, such a transparency implies that optical signals must traverse relatively long distances without electrical regeneration. In view of this, backup path computations must also account for all degradations introduced in the physical end-to-end path, thus ensuring their feasibility. Looking toward the optical core networks of the future, the EU DICONET Project has worked on cross-layer solutions to enhance network control and management with the impairment-awareness needed to govern the underlying optical layer. This includes a network planning and operation tool (NPOT) that implements impairment-aware routing and wavelength assignment algorithms, along with a failure localization mechanism. This paper reports the experimental demonstration of a dynamic impairment-aware restoration scheme that benefits from enhanced NPOT features for fast lightpath restoration. To this end, a prioritized scheduler to provide differentiated resilience support, the implementation of the quality of transmission estimator module on field programmable gate array hardware, and a fast resource pre-reservation protocol are presented in this work. The performance of the proposed impairment-aware lightpath restoration scheme has been evaluated experimentally on a 14-node all-optical network test-bed, showing average restoration times of 1.16 and 1.64 s for high and low priority traffic classes, respectively.

©2012 Optical Society of America

Full Article  |  PDF Article
More Like This
Experimental Demonstration of Impairment-Aware PCE for Multi-Bit-Rate WSONs

Francesco Paolucci, Nicola Sambo, Filippo Cugini, Alessio Giorgetti, and Piero Castoldi
J. Opt. Commun. Netw. 3(8) 610-619 (2011)

Field and lab trials of PCE-based OSNR-aware dynamic restoration in multi-domain GMPLS-enabled translucent WSON

Lei Liu, Ramon Casellas, Takehiro Tsuritani, Itsuro Morita, Shuichi Okamoto, Ricardo Martínez, and Raül Muñoz
Opt. Express 19(27) 26568-26577 (2011)

Add/Drop Contention-Aware RWA With Directionless ROADMs: The Offline Lightpath Restoration Case

Pablo Pavon-Marino and Maria-Victoria Bueno-Delgado
J. Opt. Commun. Netw. 4(9) 671-680 (2012)

Cited By

You do not have subscription access to this journal. Cited by links are available to subscribers only. You may subscribe either as an Optica member, or as an authorized user of your institution.

Contact your librarian or system administrator
or
Login to access Optica Member Subscription

Figures (12)

You do not have subscription access to this journal. Figure files are available to subscribers only. You may subscribe either as an Optica member, or as an authorized user of your institution.

Contact your librarian or system administrator
or
Login to access Optica Member Subscription

Select as filters


Select Topics Cancel
© Copyright 2024 | Optica Publishing Group. All Rights Reserved