Paper Info
Title
Epidemic propagation of control plane failures in GMPLS controlled optical transport networks
Abstract
In this paper, we investigate the behaviour of a dataplane-decoupled GMPLS control plane, when it is affected by failures that spread in the network in an epidemic manner. In particular, we consider network nodes to be either fully functional, or having a failed control plane, or having both a failed control and data plane. Through large-scale network simulation, we evaluate the effect of epidemically spreading control plane failures in terms of blocked connections requests and the amount of stranded capacity due to a dysfunctional control plane. Furthermore, we investigate the effect of the infection spreading rate and probability together with the infection start location in five network topologies. Our results indicate that the general availability of the network and the impact on its operation depend on a set of parameters, such as the network size and connectivity, the duration of the epidemic and the epidemic spreading intensity. In particular, networks with long epidemic durations do not necessarily result in worst performance in terms of blocked requests and capacity. Also epidemic scenarios, resulting in worst impact on the network availability does not necessarily result in worst network performance.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2013
Design of Reliable Communication Networks
multiprotocol label switching,optical fibre networks,performance evaluation,probability,telecommunication network reliability,telecommunication network topology,GMPLS controlled optical transport networks,blocked capacity,blocked connections requests,blocked requests,control plane failures,data plane,dataplane-decoupled GMPLS control plane,dysfunctional control plane,epidemic durations,epidemic propagation,epidemic spreading intensity,failed control,infection spreading rate,infection start location,large-scale network simulation,network availability,network connectivity,network nodes,network performance,network size,network topology,probability,stranded capacity,GMPLS,control plane,epidemics,optical networks
Field
DocType
ISSN
Routing control plane,Forwarding plane,Multiprotocol Label Switching,Computer science,Network availability,Computer network,Node (networking),Network simulation,Network topology,Network performance,Distributed computing
Conference
2639-2313
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4799-0049-7
2
0.40
References 
Authors
8
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Sarah Ruepp17318.12
Anna Manolova Fagertun231.45