Energy-efficiency of protected IP-over-WDM networks with sleep-mode devices

Recently, the need for energy-efficient and sustainable capacity growth has become stringent for telecommunication networks and great efforts have been produced to reduce their power consumption. Optical technologies based on Wavelength Division Multiplexing are well-recognized as a promising solution for greening the future Internet. One relevant approach to achieve such power savings consists in aggregating traffic flows in few network links, so that power can be saved by switching-off some unused network devices. However, the need to ensure network resiliency against link and/or node failures imposes that still the resources reserved to protect connections become available immediately after a failure occurs. Therefore, a possible solution is to set some devices into low-power sleep-mode, so that they can be rapidly re-activated and provide fast connection recovery.In this paper we focus on the power-efficiency of protected IP-over-WDM networks and provide a comprehensive comparison of four different protection strategies, namely Shared-Link, Shared-Path, Dedicated-Link and Dedicated-Path Protection SLP, SPP, DLP and DPP respectively in a sleep-mode scenario. In the proposed design strategies we assume that low-power sleep-mode is enabled for devices used for protection. Mathematical models for a power-aware design with sleep-mode is proposed for the four protection strategies. We show that relevant power savings up to about 60% can be obtained for all the protection strategies by setting protection devices into sleep-mode.

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