Title : 
Improving connections provisioning in hybrid immediate/advance reservation WDM networks
         
        
            Author : 
Muhammad, Ajmal ; Forchheimer, Robert
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Linkoping Univ., Linkoping, Sweden
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
We study a dynamic WDM network supporting applications with immediate and advance reservation (IR/AR) requirements. To diminish the adverse effect of AR on IR connection provisioning, we propose scheduling strategies able to significantly reduce IR blocking probability.
         
        
            Keywords : 
optical fibre networks; probability; scheduling; wavelength division multiplexing; IR blocking probability; IR connection provisioning; IR-AR requirements; hybrid immediate-advance reservation WDM networks; scheduling strategy;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Communications and Photonics Conference (ACP), 2012 Asia
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Guangzhou
         
        
        
            Print_ISBN : 
978-1-4673-6274-0