Partial SRLG-disjoint shared path protection with differentiated reliability in survivable WDM network

This paper addresses the problem of shared path protection algorithm in survivable wavelength-division-multiplexing (WDM) optical networks, taking into consideration of differentiated reliability (DiR) under Shared-Risk-Link-Group (SRLG) constraint. A subset of network links that share the risk of failure at the same time are said to be in a common SRLG. Rather than the conventional complete SRLG-disjoint shared path protection, we introduce a heuristic Partial SRLG-disjoint Shared Path Protection algorithm (Pd-SPP) based on the concept of SRLG conditional failure probability, to provide differentiated reliability protection. The main target of our work is to improve the network resource utilization ratio under the DiR constraint. We adopt the ideas of partial SRLG-disjoint and the K-shortest paths algorithm such we can efficiently solve the “trap” problem. The experimental results show that our algorithm outperforms the complete SRLG-disjoint shared path protection in both blocking probability ratio and network resource utilization, i.e. the results are found to be promising.