Author: Azim Mohamed Jiang Xiaohong Ho Pin–Han Horiguchi Susumu
Publisher: Springer Publishing Company
ISSN: 1387-974X
Source: Photonic Network Communications, Vol.10, Iss.2, 2005-09, pp. : 141-153
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Abstract
The ever-increasing demand for network bandwidth makes network survivability an issue of great concern. Lightpath restoration is a valuable approach to guaranteeing an acceptable level of survivability in WDM optical networks with better resource utilization than that of its protection counterpart. Active restoration (AR) is a newly proposed lightpath restoration scheme [M. Mostafa et al.