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Cost Efficient Fault Tolerant Design in Mesh Optical Networks with the Load Aware Method

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With increasing wavelength capacity, the fault tolerant policy of the mesh optical network becomes much more important. To meet the survivability requirement, a set of cost efficient fault tolerant mechanisms are designed in this paper. The main objective is the minimization of the total number of required wavelengths. Furthermore, based on the method of the Integer Linear Program (ILP), shared-path protection and shared-link protection strategies are achieved, respectively. Moreover, the objective of minimizing the load imbalance is used to ensure the network resources utilized efficiently, and then the wavelength contention can be mitigated by selecting the working path and backup path reasonably. The results show that the survivability of the optical network can be guaranteed in a cost efficient manner.

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This work was supported by Chang Jiang Scholars Program of the Ministry of Education of China, the National Natural Science Foundation of China for Distinguished Young Scholars under Grant No. 60725104, the National Basic Research Program of China under Grant No. 2007CB310706, the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No. 60972096, 60873263, 60932002 and 60932005, NCET Program of MoE of China, Natural Science Foundation of CQ CTCS (CTCS2011BA2041), the Foundation of Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunication (A2011-14), the Projects of the Education Council of Chongqing (KJ110531).

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    Ruyan Wang, Dapeng Wu & Sheng Huang

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Wang, R., Wu, D., Huang, S. et al. Cost Efficient Fault Tolerant Design in Mesh Optical Networks with the Load Aware Method. J Netw Syst Manage 20, 56–75 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10922-011-9211-3

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