Flexi-grid elastic optical network (EON) provides a promising infrastructure for datacenter (DC) interconnection with its flexible spectrum allocation and high-capacity transmission. Since failures in inter-datacenter elastic optical networks (IDC-EONs) will result in vast amounts of request interruptions and data loss, much recent research has focused on the survivability of IDC-EONs. In this paper, we investigate how to improve network survivability and provide 100% request protection under single-datacenter and single-link failures (single-DLFs) scenario by leveraging multiple DCs that can provide the same services. A shared backup path protection based on minimum spectrum occupancy combination strategy (SBPP-MSOCT) is proposed, which combines the existing spectrum occupancy of the network and select working and protection paths with the least spectrum consumption. Numerical results demonstrate that SBPP-MSOCT can effectively enhance network survivability while reducing spectrum resource consumption and request blocking probability compared to reference algorithms.

Date Published: 14 February 2019
PDF: 4 pages
Proc. SPIE 11048, 17th International Conference on Optical Communications and Networks (ICOCN2018), 110480Y (14 February 2019); doi: 10.1117/12.2519605

Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 11048:
17th International Conference on Optical Communications and Networks (ICOCN2018)
Zhaohui Li, Editor(s)