Schemes for inter-domain lightpath establishment based on PCE architecture

Despite the research advances in intra-domain lightpath provisioning in Wavelength Division Multiplexing networks, efficient and practical schemes for path computation and resource advertisement in multi-domain mesh networks still need to be developed. Most of the solutions proposed in the literature lacks the ability to convey optical network-specific Traffic Engineering information and are based on a periodic message flooding technique. This paper proposes three novel solutions for inter-domain lightpath provisioning in WDM circuit switched mesh networks. Two routing advertisement schemes and two path and wavelength selection criteria for the PCE architecture are proposed. The solutions provide a complete inter-domain routing and wavelength solution. Simulation experiments show the effectiveness of the proposed solutions which significantly reduce the total amount of message exchanged as well as overall call blocking.