The current trend is to integrate a constantly increasing number of services in the same
communication network. Some services have very high resilience requirements, while other …

The continuous growth of broadband communications, multimedia services and Internet is
absolutely related to the deployment and operation of optical networks. Despite optical …

SLAs are common means to define specifications and requirements of cloud computing
services in business relationships. The terms that define the guaranteed availability for a …

The focus of this paper is on developing and evaluating a practical methodology for
determining if and when different types of traffic can be safely managed within different class …

Fast Spanning Tree Reconnection (FSTR) is a newly proposed restoration method by us to
handle link failures in Metro Ethernet networks. Compared with other methods existing in the …

Optical networks are currently widely employed to support a variety of telecommunications
and other applications. In order to provide the increased bandwidth needed by the existing …

Mobile backhaul networks have been gaining importance due to the growing demand for
mobile Internet. With faster wireless access speed, mobile backhaul networks need to keep …

Legacy ring-based networks have been deployed in conjunction with SONET/SDH
technology to provide survivability to transport networks, and they achieve service recovery …

This paper proposes an algorithm for allocating connections with bandwidth and availability
requirements in a telecommunication network where the connections may share resources …

We consider the problem of survivable network design in traffic-groomed optical WDM mesh
networks that support subwavelength capacity connections. In typical survivable network …