Heuristic approach to availability calculation of path protected optical network based on the analysis of cable failures

Author

Jurdana, Irena ; Mikac, Branko ; Kreso, Goran

Author_Institution

Fac. of Maritime Studies, Univ. of Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatia

fYear

2011

fDate

26-30 June 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

This paper presents a new method of calculating the availability of path protected optical network through a heuristic approach. The algorithm for finding and calculating the availability of working and protection paths according to the criterion of highest availability includes parameters called weighting factors. Weighting factors are defined and classified based on the analysis of cable failures at the physical layer of a real optical network. The results of calculating the availability via the proposed method and standard method for the same segment of the referent optical network were compared and analyzed.

Keywords

failure analysis; optical fibre networks; telecommunication cables; availability calculation; cable failures analysis; heuristic approach; optical network; physical layer; protection paths; weighting factors; Availability; Communication cables; Maintenance engineering; Optical fiber cables; Optical fiber networks; Optical fibers; availability calculation; failure analysis; heuristic method; optical fibre network; weighting factors;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), 2011 13th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Stockholm

ISSN

2161-2056

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0881-7

Electronic_ISBN

2161-2056

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICTON.2011.5970895

Filename

5970895