A heuristic approach for dynamically reducing the number of Light Trails in Survivable Optical Networks

Author

Ansari, Zaeem Hasan ; Tariq, Salim

Author_Institution

TRG Customer Solutions, Lahore

fYear

2006

fDate

1-5 Oct. 2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

8

Abstract

A new architecture called "light trail" has recently been proposed for use in optical networks for carrying data traffic. Reducing the number of light trails that must be setup to service connection requests as they arrive is an important light trail design problem for which there is currently no efficient heuristic algorithm available. In this paper, we propose and present simulation results of a heuristic approach for reducing the number of light trails that need to be setup in a survivable optical network in order to accept as many of the dynamically-arriving connection requests as possible.

Keywords

optical communication; telecommunication congestion control; data traffic; heuristic approach; light trails; survivable optical networks; Algorithm design and analysis; Bandwidth; Cables; Engineering management; Optical fiber networks; Optical sensors; Switches; Technology management; Telecommunication traffic; Traffic control;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Broadband Communications, Networks and Systems, 2006. BROADNETS 2006. 3rd International Conference on

Conference_Location

San Jose, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-0425-4

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-0425-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/BROADNETS.2006.4374371

Filename

4374371