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
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;
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
