A fault-tolerance solution to any set of failure scenarios on Dynamic WDM Networks with wavelength continuity constraints

Overview & Synopsis

Survivability of internet services is a significant and crucial challenge in designing optical networks. A robust infrastructure and transmission protocols are needed to maintain communications, despite the existence of one or more failed components on the system. Here, we present a generalized approach to tolerate any set of failure scenarios, to the extent the user can still communicate with the remaining components, where a scenario is an arbitrary set of links in a non-operational state. To assess the survivability problem, we propose a joint solution to the issues listed next: the set of primary routes, a collection of alternate routes associated to each failure scenario, and the capacity required on the network to allow communication between all users, in spite of any considered failure scenario, while satisfying for each user a specific predefined quality of service threshold, defined in the Service Level Agreement (SLA). Numerical results show that the proposed approach not only enjoys the advantages of low complexity and ease of implementation, but it is also able to achieve significant resource savings compared to existing methods. The savings are higher than 30% on single link failures and more than a 100% on two simultaneous link failures scenarios or in more complex failure scenarios.