Title
Path Protection Routing with SRLG Constraints to Support IPTV in WDM Mesh Networks
Abstract
The distribution of broadcast TV across large provider networks has become a highly topical subject as satellite distribution capacity exhausts and competitive pressures increase. In a typical IPTV architecture, broadcast TV is distributed from two sources (for redundancy) to multiple destinations. The aim of this paper is to examine how IPTV can be reliably and cost effectively supported in wavelength division multiplexed (WDM) networks. WDM networks have evolved to mesh topologies and recently to support multicast, which is particularly valuable in reducing the network cost in broadcast TV applications. Our goal is to find two trees with a minimal total cost such that we have two physically (or Shared Risk Link Group (SRLG)) diverse paths to each of the destinations - one from each of the sources. Any two links that belong to a common SRLG are subject to a single point of failure, be it a channel or wavelength failure, a fiber cut, or a complete conduit cut. We first show that our path protection routing problem is NP-complete. We then propose an Integer Programming (IP) formulation for this problem. Using real network topology data, we show that the real networks are amenable to the IP problem formulation and yield optimal solutions.
Year
DOI
Venue
2006
10.1109/INFOCOM.2006.59
Barcelona
Keywords
Field
DocType
digital television,telecommunication network routing,video streaming,wavelength division multiplexing,IPTV,WDM mesh networks,broadcast TV,integer programming formulation,mesh topologies,path protection routing,shared risk link group,wavelength division multiplexed networks
Mesh networking,Single point of failure,Computer science,Computer network,Network topology,Integer programming,IPTV,Multicast,Multiplexing,Path protection,Distributed computing
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
0743-166X
1-4244-0221-2
7
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.61
5
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Meeyoung Cha14391237.20
Wanpracha Art Chaovalitwongse239243.42
Zihui Ge384755.97
Jennifer Yates479064.51
Sue B. Moon56806485.52