IP restoration vs. WDM protection is there an optimal choice?.

IP restoration vs. WDM protection is there an optimal choice?.

The exponentially growing number of Internet users armed with emerging multimedia Internet applications is continuously thirsty for more network capacity. Wavelength-division multiplexing networks that directly support IP-the so-called IP over WDM architecture-have the appropriate characteristics to...

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Publié dans:IEEE Network : the magazine of global information exchange 14, 6 (2000).
Auteur principal: Fumagalli, A.
Format: Article
Langue:English
Sujets:
IP layers.
IP over WDM architecture.
IP restoration.
WDM layers.
WDM protection.
Application requirements.
Computational time.
Connection reliability.
Interactive design.
Management complexity.
Mesh network.
Multimedia Internet applications.
Network capacity.
Network cost minimization.
Network faults.
Simulated annealing based heuristic.
Telecommunication services.
Topology constraints.
Traffic.
Wavelength-division multiplexing networks.