FAULT LOCALIZATION AND ALARM CORRELATION IN OPTICAL WDM NETWORKS
Abstract
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For several high speed networks, providing resilience against failures is an essential requirement. The main feature for designing next generation optical networks is protecting and restoring high capacity WDM networks from the failures. Quick detection, identification and restoration make networks more strong and consistent even though the failures cannot be avoided. Hence, it is necessary to develop fast, efficient and dependable fault localization or detection mechanisms. In this paper we propose a new fault localization algorithm for WDM networks which can identify the location of a failure on a failed lightpath. Our algorithm detects the failed connection and then attempts to reroute data stream through an alternate path. In addition to this, we develop an algorithm to analyze the information of the alarms generated by the components of an optical network, in the presence of a fault. It uses the alarm correlation in order to reduce the list of suspected components shown to the network operators. By our simulation results, we show that our proposed algorithms achieve less blocking probability and delay while getting higher throughput.

Authors
G. Ramesh1, S. SundaraVadivelu2
Department of Information Technology, KLN College of Engineering, Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India1, Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, SSN College of Engineering, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India2

Keywords
Alarm Correlation, Blocking Probability, Delay, Fault Localization, WDM Networks
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ICTACT
Published In :
ICTACT Journal on Communication Technology
( Volume: 1 , Issue: 2 , Pages: 91 - 97 )
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June 2010
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