• DocumentCode
    516067
  • Title

    Exploiting excess capacity for improved robustness in optical WDM backbone mesh networks

  • Author

    Dikbiyik, Ferhat ; Sahasrabuddhe, Laxman ; Tornatore, Massimo ; Mukherjee, Biswanath

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of California, Davis, CA, USA
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    21-25 March 2010
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    Any operational network has some excess capacity to accommodate new traffic demands and avoid early exhaustion of bandwidth resources. Exploiting this unused capacity to improve robustness of an optical WDM backbone mesh network is investigated.
  • Keywords
    optical fibre networks; telecommunication traffic; wavelength division multiplexing; bandwidth resource exhaustion; excess capacity; operational network; optical WDM backbone mesh networks; traffic demands; Computer networks; Mesh networks; Optical fiber networks; Protection switching; Robustness; Spine; Telecommunication network reliability; Telecommunication traffic; WDM networks; Wavelength division multiplexing;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Fiber Communication (OFC), collocated National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference, 2010 Conference on (OFC/NFOEC)
  • Conference_Location
    San Diego, CA
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-55752-884-1
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    5465781