Campus Units
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Conference
The IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks 30th Anniversary (LCN'05)
Publication Version
Accepted Manuscript
Link to Published Version
https://doi.org/10.1109/LCN.2005.84
Publication Date
2005
Journal or Book Title
The IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks 30th Anniversary (LCN'05)
First Page
174
Last Page
181
DOI
10.1109/LCN.2005.84
Conference Title
The IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks 30th Anniversary (LCN'05)
Conference Date
November 15-17, 2005
City
New South Wales, Australia
Abstract
The light-trail architecture provides a novel solution to address IP-centric issues at the optical layer. By incorporating drop and continue functionality, overlaid with a lightweight control protocol, light-trails enable efficient sharing of network resources, support subwavelength traffic and minimize costs. In this work, we investigate network design and survivability issues in such networks in the presence of multi-granularity subwavelength traffic subject to nonbifurcation constraints. We first establish the NP-hardness of the light-trail routing problem by reduction from a Hamiltonian path problem. We propose three heuristics for light-trail network design and study their performance with limited network resources. We observe the effect of tunable and fixed transceiver equipment on network throughput. We observe that our heuristics yield excellent wavelength utilization under moderate to high loads even in the presence of heavily fractional traffic. We propose two additional heuristics for shared and dedicated protection and conclude that with only a modest amount of spare capacity, full protection can be achieved for all single link failures.
Rights
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Copyright Owner
IEEE
Copyright Date
2005
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Balasubramanian, Srivatsan; He, Wensheng; and Somani, Arun K., "Light-Trail Networks: Design and Survivability" (2005). Electrical and Computer Engineering Conference Papers, Posters and Presentations. 140.
https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/ece_conf/140
Comments
This is a manuscript of a proceeding published as Balasubramanian, Srivatsan, Wensheng He, and Arun K. Somani. "Light-trail networks: Design and survivability." In The IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks 30th Anniversary (LCN'05) (2005): 174-181. DOI: 10.1109/LCN.2005.84. Posted with permission.