Title :
Availability maps for connections in WDM optical networks
Author :
Mello, Darli A A ; Schupke, Dominic A. ; Scheffel, Matthias ; Waldman, Helio
Author_Institution :
Opt. Networking Lab., State Univ. of Campinas UNICAMP, Brazil
Abstract :
The provisioning of services in optical networks demands reliable transmission paths. This paper investigates the availability of optical connections with respect to the failure probability of the involved network components. Outages of the fiber links as well as potential hardware failures for different opaque and transparent node architectures are analyzed. The results are presented in terms of map diagrams which allow to determine the availability of a wavelength connection subject to the transmission distance and the number of traversed hops.
Keywords :
optical fibre networks; telecommunication network reliability; wavelength division multiplexing; WDM optical networks; failure probability; fiber link outages; reliability; service provision; Availability; Hardware; Intelligent networks; Laboratories; Optical fiber networks; Optical fibers; Resilience; Telecommunication network reliability; WDM networks; Wavelength division multiplexing;
Conference_Titel :
Design of Reliable Communication Networks, 2005. (DRCN 2005). Proceedings.5th International Workshop on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-9439-9
DOI :
10.1109/DRCN.2005.1563847
