Novel method of availability calculation based on realistic path protected network scenarios

Author

Jurdana, I. ; Mikac, B.

Author_Institution

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

fYear

2011

fDate

20-22 July 2011

Firstpage

188

Lastpage

191

Abstract

The paper presents a new availability model and method of calculating the availability of optical fibre transmission network, which include weighting factors. Weighting factors are defined and classified on the basis of behaviour analysis of the actual fibre optic network in the event of failures. The aim of this paper is to achieve a realistic basis for further academic research by combining field data with the previous studies on the resilience of fibre optic networks. The results of several case studies availability calculation are presented and analyzed here. The obtained results are comparable with statistical data on interruptions in the real backbone network and simulation results for idealized network cases with implementation of path protection.

Keywords

optical fibre networks; optical fibres; availability model; behaviour analysis; fibre optic network; idealized network; optical fibre transmission network; path protected network scenario; path protection; real backbone network; statistical data; weighting factors; Availability; Communication cables; Computer aided software engineering; Optical fiber cables; Optical fiber networks; Optical fibers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Networks and Optical Communications (NOC), 2011 16th European Conference on

Conference_Location

Newcastle-Upon-Tyne

Print_ISBN

978-1-61284-753-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-86135-373-3

Type

conf

Filename

5996265