3rd International ICST Conference on Broadband Communications, Networks, and Systems

Research Article

A heuristic approach for dynamically reducing the number of Light Trails in Survivable Optical Networks

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/BROADNETS.2006.4374371,
        author={Zaeem Hasan  Ansari and Salim Tariq},
        title={A heuristic approach for dynamically reducing the number of Light Trails in Survivable Optical Networks},
        proceedings={3rd International ICST Conference on Broadband Communications, Networks, and Systems},
        publisher={IEEE},
        proceedings_a={BROADNETS},
        year={2006},
        month={10},
        keywords={},
        doi={10.1109/BROADNETS.2006.4374371}
    }
    
  • Zaeem Hasan Ansari
    Salim Tariq
    Year: 2006
    A heuristic approach for dynamically reducing the number of Light Trails in Survivable Optical Networks
    BROADNETS
    IEEE
    DOI: 10.1109/BROADNETS.2006.4374371
Zaeem Hasan Ansari1,*, Salim Tariq2,*
  • 1: TRG Customer Solutions, Lahore, Pakistan
  • 2: Electrical Engineering Department, University of Management and Technology, Lahore, Pakistan
*Contact email: zaeem.ansari@trgworld.com.pk, stariq@umt.edu.pk

Abstract

A new architecture called "light trail" has recently been proposed for use in optical networks for carrying data traffic. Reducing the number of light trails that must be setup to service connection requests as they arrive is an important light trail design problem for which there is currently no efficient heuristic algorithm available. In this paper, we propose and present simulation results of a heuristic approach for reducing the number of light trails that need to be setup in a survivable optical network in order to accept as many of the dynamically-arriving connection requests as possible.