Squeezed Protection in Elastic Optical Networks Subject to Multiple Link Failures

Abstract

Elastic optical network (EON) is fast becoming a key solution for designing optical network with better usage of spectrum resources or other objectives of interest to tenant and/or operators. A primary concern of EONs is to protect the network against failures of its elements, because this kind of event can provoke the loss of substantial amount of traffic. In this paper, we propose a new mixed integer linear programming (MILP) formulation for protecting the network traffic against multiple link failures. The key idea is to use bandwidth squeezing together with grooming capability to provide few extra traffic for protection and guarantee a minimum bandwidth for each source-destination node pair under multiple failure events. The proposed formulation solves the virtual topology design problem jointly with the grooming, routing, modulation and spectrum allocation (RMSA) tasks. Due to the non-deterministic polynomial time (NP-hard) nature of the proposed MILP formulation, a heuristic strategy (referred to as two-step MILP) for large networks is also proposed. The solutions and performance of the proposed MILP formulation and two-step MILP analyzed through case studies in a small network. In addition, the performance of three large networks is assessed for cases scenarios where connections are under different service-level agreement (SLA). In view of proposed formulation and two-step MILP, it is possible to identify the configurations that ensure better usage of spectrum resources with different kinds of protection against single or multiple link failures.

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“…Consequently, savings on spectral resources compared to the fixed-grid legacy WDM networks can be further achieved if just a fraction of the required traffic is protected, which mitigates the necessary spectrum over-provisioning in the protection mechanisms. Squeezing protection is then key to provide parsimony in the commitment of spectral resources to the spare capacity [20]. A large and growing body of literature has investigated squeezing protection [15], [18], [20].…”

“…Squeezing protection is then key to provide parsimony in the commitment of spectral resources to the spare capacity [20]. A large and growing body of literature has investigated squeezing protection [15], [18], [20].…”

“…A number of researchers have reported the use of squeezing as a solution to meet customer and service providers needs. For example, see [38]- [40] for details and a theoretical demonstration in [20]. As a repercussion, cheaper transponders with less power consumption can be applied, and less spectrum resources (i.e., narrower channels) are necessary.…”

“…Fig. 1 illustrates two possible protection mechanisms that could be applied to an EON using virtualization: dedicated protection (DP) and/or dedicated protection with squeezing (DP+S) [2], [7], [20]. By admitting traffic squeezing in the used protection mechanism, the capacity of the backup path may be set for a fraction of the requested working traffic.…”