A Multi-Backup Path Protection scheme for survivability in Elastic Optical Networks

• We propose Backup Spectrum Reservation with MultiPath Protection (BSR-MPP) for EONs.
• BSR-MPP assigns multiple backup routes over advance reserved backup resources.
• It minimizes spectrum conflict between primary and backup routes in survival EONs.
• Our BSR-MPP strategy has lower BBP than conventional SPP and MPP approaches.

Two important challenges in designing a survivable optical network are minimizing backup spectrum allocation and ensuring spectrum assignment constraints. Allocating backup spectrum is one important approach for survivable optical network design. Connection requests which are rejected due to the unavailability of a single backup path can be survived using multiple backup routes. Multiple backup routes not only increase connection acceptance rate, but also improve backup resource sharing. In this paper, we present a strategy for survivability which optimizes primary and backup spectrum allocations and multiple backup route assignments for surviving a connection request. In our strategy, named as Backup Spectrum Reservation with MultiPath Protection (BSR-MPP), multiple backup routes are searched over advance reserved backup resources when an optical connection is concerned. Simulation results show that confinement of backup resources result in higher resource sharing and assignment of multiple backup lightpaths. It can also be observed that BSR-MPP has lower Bandwidth Blocking Probability and higher spectrum efficiency as compared to conventional Shared Path Protection (SPP) and MultiPath Protection (MPP) strategies.