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

Volume

2

fYear

2003

fDate

4-7 May 2003

Firstpage

871

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2003. IEEE CCECE 2003. Canadian Conference on

ISSN

0840-7789

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7781-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CCECE.2003.1226033

Filename

1226033