Abstract:
Dynamic restoration involves routing and bandwidth assignment of an unplanned restoration path in a wavelength switched optical network (20), having regeneration nodes (60), nodes each having a ROADM (62) having drop paths and add paths. An electrical switch (68) provides configurable regeneration capacity by coupling selected drop paths to selected add paths. Some of the configurable regeneration capacity is kept for unplanned restoration paths. A PCE determines (120) routing and bandwidth assignments for an unplanned restoration path for the traffic flow to avoid a fault, and sends (130) configuration messages to the nodes to set up the unplanned restoration path dynamically and to configure the electrical switch to provide regeneration on the path. Keeping some reconfigurable regeneration capacity enables much longer unplanned paths to be found to avoid faults, and enables wavelength conversion if needed. Thus the reliability of finding at least one path avoiding the fault can be increased.
Abstract:
A method for planning a plurality of optical connections as a function of a plurality of traffic demand (dl-d3) comprising: in a routing step: allocating a loopless network path to each traffic demand, allocating each traffic demand (dl-d3) to a candidate optical connection (c1-c3) or chain of candidate optical connections selected so as to carry the capacity of the traffic demand along the loopless network path allocated to the traffic demand, and in an optimization step:
defining a reduced set of candidate optical connections (c2-c3) by withdrawing the candidate optical connection to be withdrawn (cl), for each traffic demand (dl) allocated to the candidate optical connection to be withdrawn, determining a candidate optical connection or a chain of candidate optical connections to be re-used among the reduced set of candidate optical connections (c2-c3), and re-allocating the traffic demand (dl) to the candidate optical connection or chain of candidate optical connections to be re-used.
Abstract:
A determination device for an optical wavelength division multiplex communication system configured to set each of different paths each of which is formed by connection of spans each of which is a zone between two adjacent transmission devices, among transmission devices forming a communication network, in the communication network, or a single span in the communication network, for the corresponding one of different wavelengths, and configured to transmit an optical signal of each of the wavelengths via the corresponding path set to the wavelength, the device comprising: determination means for determining whether an optical signal of at least one of the wavelengths is transmittable only to a path, among newly formed paths, for which the number of spans forming the path is equal to or less than a predetermined upper-limit number, in order to transmit one or more optical signals of one or more wavelengths among the wavelengths.
Abstract:
A method for determining an optical signal-to-noise ratio penalty as a measure for a quality of an optical signal transmitted via an optical link between a source optical node and a destination optical node in an optical network, the method includes collecting information of the optical link; determining a configuration parameter Pconf of the optical link based on the information of the optical link; adjusting the configuration parameter Pconf to an adjusted configuration parameter P′conf according to linear impairments in the optical link; and determining the optical signal-to-noise ratio penalty based on a non-linear function of the adjusted configuration parameter P′conf, the non-linear function accounting for non-linear impairments in the optical link.
Abstract:
An apparatus comprising a path computation element (PCE) configured for at least partial impairment aware routing and wavelength assignment (RWA) and to communicate with a path computation client (PCC) based on a PCE protocol (PCEP) that supports path routing, wavelength assignment (WA), and impairment validation (IV). Also disclosed is a network component comprising at least one processor configured to implement a method comprising establishing a PCEP session with a PCC, receiving path computation information comprising RWA information and constraints from the PCC, establishing impairment aware RWA (IA-RWA) based on the path computation information and a private impairment information for a vendor's equipment, and sending a path and an assigned wavelength based on the IA-RWA to the PCC. Disclosed is a method comprising establishing impairment aware routing and wavelength assignment for a plurality of network elements (NEs) in an optical network using routing and combined WA and IV.
Abstract:
An apparatus comprising a network element (NE) configured to communicate at least one of signal constraints and processing capabilities for a plurality of resource blocks (RBs) associated with a network node in a wavelength switched optical network (WSON) node Type-Length-Value (TLV) and signal constraints and processing capabilities associated with a link in a WSON link TLV, wherein the WSON node TLV comprises a node identifier (ID), one or more Generalized Multi-Protocol Label Switching (GMPLS) TLVs, a connectivity matrix TLV, and a resource pool TLV, and wherein the WSON link TLV comprises a link ID, one or more GMPLS TLVs, and a port wavelength restriction TLV.
Abstract:
The present invention provides a method and device for routing and wavelength assignment in an optical network. The method comprises: a topology step in which a topology network of the optical network is obtained; a route calculation step in which at least one route in the topology network is calculated, a first node and a last node of the route being predetermined, and the at least one route being part of all routes from the first node to the last node; and a wavelength assignment determination step in which for each node on the route, it is determined whether link attribute information of the node meets a predetermined constraint condition, if the predetermined constraint condition is met, the route is selected as a working route, and the method ends; if the predetermined constraint condition is not met, the method returns to the route calculation step. In the present invention, after a route that meets the predetermined constraint condition is calculated, whether the route meets the wavelength assignment is determined, instead of performing the wavelength assignment at one time after a plurality of routes are calculated, thus increasing the hit rate of the available routes and reducing data amount generated by route calculation.