Protection in Core Packet Networks: Layer 1 or Layer 3?

Batchellor, C.R.; Gerstel, Ori

doi:10.1109/ecoc.2006.4801089

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“…The former option, of transport protection for the IP layer, has been shown to be ineffective in previous works such as [2] for several reasons, the most important of which are: (a) the transport layer cannot fully protect the traffic since it is helpless against failures in the IP layer. Therefore such a design will require IP protection bandwidth to deal with nodes failures, in addition to the transport protection bandwidth to deal with link failures, rendering the overall design very inefficient; (b) the IP layer can protect traffic that requires protection, while handling the rest of the traffic as best effort -as opposed to the transport layer, which must protect the entire router link.…”

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Increased IP layer protection bandwidth due to router bypass

Gerstel

Batchellor

2010

36th European Conference and Exhibition on Optical Communication

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Counter to previous works on router bypass, that assume protection bandwidth in routers is independent of the amount of bypass, we show that more bypass implies more IP protection bandwidth to cope with reduced likelihood of sharing. IntroductionMany studies (e.g., [1]) have investigated the cost savings that can be achieved if routers are bypassed by either optical switches (e.g., ROADMs) or electrical switches (SONET/SDH and more recently OTN). The design methodology in these studies is typically simple: for each demand between routers, find if it can bypass intermediate routers in the transport layer, either individually -over a dedicated wavelength, or sharing a wavelength with additional demands using TDM grooming. If the demand cannot adequately fill the transport container (OTN connection or wavelength depending on the case), then it is aggregated with other IP demands using routers, until the aggregate can fill up the container and bypass some routers. Note that if the design does not include OTN, the resulting IP layer design will be sparser (i.e., includes fewer links) than a design that includes OTN, since there are less opportunities to map traffic efficiently into wavelengths than opportunities to map it into (a smaller) OTN container. The finer the granularity of OTN, the denser the IP network will become.

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confidence: 98%