Title
Pan-European optical transport networks: An availability-based comparison
Abstract
The traffic to be carried by today's European backbone networks increases very rapidly. An important portion of this traffic consists of data traffic (mainly IP-related). In the future data traffic is expected to become the abundantly dominant traffic type, while voice traffic will only account for a very small portion of the total traffic volume. In this paper, some network topologies for such a pan-European fiber-optic backbone network are presented (more details can be found in [1]). These topologies are compared in terms of the efficiency of the network design both from a cost and capacity point of view and in terms of the availability of the connections routed over this network. In order to be able to assess the network topologies under realistic circumstances, the expected traffic demand is forecasted. This enables to make the comparison for the current traffic volume as well as for the traffic patterns of the future. As not all types of (data) traffic require the same degree of survivability and in order to leverage the total capacity cost of the network design, a distinction is made between different recovery options in the optical layer for the different traffic types considered.
Year
DOI
Venue
2003
10.1023/A:1023088418684
Photonic Network Communications
Keywords
Field
DocType
pan-European fiber-optic topologies,traffic forecast,availability,expected loss of traffic
Traffic generation model,Teletraffic engineering,Network planning and design,Internet traffic engineering,Computer science,Floating car data,Computer network,Traffic shaping,Network traffic simulation,Network traffic control,Distributed computing
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
5
3
1572-8188(Series Online ISSN)1387-974X(Series Print ISSN)
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
70
6.94
3
Authors
10
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
S. De Maesschalck117319.17
D. Colle21255138.20
Ilse Lievens39110.60
Mario Pickavet41000110.08
Piet Demeester53471363.78
Christian Mauz6717.33
Monika Jaeger7707.28
R. Inkret89412.98
Branko Mikac913421.89
Jan Derkacz10728.01