Survivable routing in IP-over-WDM networks: An efficient and scalable local search algorithm

In IP-over-WDM networks, a logical IP network is routed on top of a physical optical fiber network. An important challenge here is to make the routing survivable. We call a routing survivable if the connectivity of the logical network is guaranteed in the case of a failure in the physical network. In this paper we describe FastSurv, a local search algorithm for survivable routing. The algorithm works in an iterative manner: after each iteration it learns more about the structure of the logical graph and in the next iteration it uses this information to improve its solution. The algorithm can take link capacity constraints into account and can be extended to deal with multiple simultaneous link failures and node failures. In a large series of tests we compare FastSurv with current state-of-the-art algorithms for this problem. We show that it can provide better solutions in much shorter time, and that it is more scalable with respect to the number of nodes, both in terms of solution quality and run time.

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