Volume 75, Issue 4 pp. 374-391
SPECIAL ISSUE ARTICLE

Shared Risk Link Group disjointness and geodiverse routing: A trade-off between benefit and practical effort

Rita Girão-Silva

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Rita Girão-Silva

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

Institute for Systems Engineering and Computers at Coimbra (INESC Coimbra), Coimbra, Portugal

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Rita Girão-Silva, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal.

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Boro Nedic

Boro Nedic

Department of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences, Darmstadt, Germany

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Matthias Gunkel

Matthias Gunkel

Deutsche Telekom Technik GmbH - Optical Transport Core, Darmstadt, Germany

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Teresa Gomes

Teresa Gomes

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

Institute for Systems Engineering and Computers at Coimbra (INESC Coimbra), Coimbra, Portugal

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First published: 07 February 2020
Citations: 11
Funding information European Regional Development Fund, CENTRO-01-0145-FEDER-029312; Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, UIDB/00308/2020

Abstract

The resilience to disasters is a very relevant problem in telecommunication networks. This work addresses the problem of 1 + 1 optical lightpath protection considering maximally shared risk link group (SRLG)-disjoint geodiverse paths, applied in the context of an optical network. The resilience to geographically correlated disasters is accomplished by guaranteeing geodiversity of the paths. This work focuses on estimating the increase of the path lengths and the increase in cost of the required transponders, compared to simple link-disjointness (i.e., when no constraints on SRLG-disjointness or geodiversity are considered). Results in different networks allow to evaluate the effect of SRLG-disjointness to ensure some geodiversity.

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