Title :
Implementation issues for asynchronous criticality avoidance protocol in multifiber WDM networks
Author :
Feng, Tang ; Mouftah, H.T.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Queen´´s Univ., Kingston, Ont., Canada
Abstract :
Routing and wavelength assignment (RWA) problem is one of the most important issues in wavelength-routed WDM optical networks. The asynchronous criticality avoidance (ACA) protocol is a fully-distributed routing and signaling protocol for multifiber wavelength-routed WDM optical networks. This paper discusses the ACA protocol and focuses on its implementation issues. We propose a new OSPF-based solution to implement the ACA protocol by applying OSPF signaling mechanism into the implementation of the ACA protocol to improve the network performance and reduce the traffic overhead significantly.
Keywords :
optical fibre networks; routing protocols; telecommunication signalling; wavelength division multiplexing; OSPF-based signaling; asynchronous criticality avoidance protocol; distributed control protocol; fully-distributed routing; multifiber WDM optical network; network performance improvement; routing and wavelength assignment; signaling protocol; traffic overhead reduction; wavelength division multiplexing; Bandwidth; Costs; Information technology; Intelligent networks; Optical fiber networks; Routing protocols; WDM networks; Wavelength assignment; Wavelength division multiplexing; Wavelength routing;
Conference_Titel :
Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2003. IEEE CCECE 2003. Canadian Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7781-8
DOI :
10.1109/CCECE.2003.1226033
