Restoration approach in WDM optical networks

Critical applications require proactive-based survivability strategy which provides 100% degree of survivability, low blocking probability and very low restoration time. In this paper, we have proposed an efficient proactive restoration approach for WDM optical network that efficiently utilizes the resources and reduces blocking probability as compared to existing proactive restoration approach. It gives priority to primary lightpath as compared to backup lightpath because primary lightpath should not share resources with other lightpaths in critical applications but backup lightpaths can share the resources, i.e. backup multiplexing.