Grant: Strategic Projects - Group

Generalized Multi-Protocol Label Switching (GMPLS) provides network operators with a strong tool in traffic engineering and abundant Classes of Service (CoS), and has been well recognized as the best candidate for the next generation IP-centric carrier networks. One of the most important functions supported by GMPLS is its ability in performance multilayer protection and restoration such that the End-to-End (E2E) service availability of each Label Switched Path (LSP) could be guaranteed according to the service level agreement (SLA). The previously reported studies on service availability and survivability have mostly focused on the efficiency in the redundancy allocation upon a specific protection scheme or under the consideration of a given number of simultaneous failures in networks. A general framework for survivable routing and spare capacity allocation that can best address the availability-aware design, however, has never been reported. Thus, this project is committed to solve this problem by bringing up a group of researchers and engineers, to introduce and investigate novel availability-aware survivable routing architecture under the framework of GMPLS-based recovery. Insight research and evaluation will be conducted upon the developed strategies and schemes cooperating with the proposed framework, which could be exercised in the carrier network of our industry partner - Bell Canada.