Novel P-Cycle protection strategy for asymmetric traffic in mesh optical networks

Abstract

A novel prefigured-cycle (P-Cycle) algorithm was proposed to improve the protection success ratio for asymmetric traffic in mesh optical networks. The proposed algorithm was simulated in a Pan-European COST239 network environment under an asymmetric dynamic traffic model. The experimental results show that the proposed algorithm has lower capacity redundancy and higher utilization rate of configured resources than traditional P-Cycle methods. Network performance can be improved when implementing this algorithm under single-link failure circumstances. The system behavior is analyzed under different traffic volumes and the configuration strategy is also investigated for the heavy-load and light-load networks respectively.

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