Sensitivity of backup capacity requirements to traffic distribution and resilience constraints

Abstract

In this work, we present several end-to-end protection switching mechanisms for application in multiprotocol label switching (MPLS). In case of local outages in the network, they deviate the traffic around the failed element over backup paths. They are easy to implement and reduce the additional capacity to maintain the quality of service (QoS) on the backup paths. We study the capacity savings of the presented methods for various protection schemes with different traffic matrices. We further test the influence of different resilience constraints such as the set of protected failure scenarios, bandwidth reuse restrictions due to optical communication, and traffic reduction due to failed border routers.