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Quantifying optimal mesh and ring design costs

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  • Thomas Stidsen
  • Arne John Glenstrup

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During the last decade telecommunication operators have been deploying WDM (Wavelength Division Multiplexing) technology to satisfy the exponential growth in global communication. While facilitating the advanced information society of today, this has also led to a higher dependency on the networks, and furthermore the high capacity utilization of optical fibers means that a single link failure will influence many users and enterprises. For these reasons, protection of network connections has become a major competitive parameter for the operators. Currently, the most popular protection method is ring protection, due to its simplicity, requiring only basic management functionality and operating with local restoration control. While many optical rings have been deployed, little work has been published on exactly what the cost of ring networks are, compared to general mesh networks. In this article we perform a quantitative comparison between ring protection and mesh protection, using real world network data and realistic prices for network components. Extending classic LP flow models to take rings and node costs into account, and using a link‐path based mesh network LP model, we are able to perform a total cost comparison of the two architectures, and of manual ring network design. The results suggest that the price of mesh network components must be reduced significantly to be competitive with ring based networks, and also that manual network design does not necessarily lead to the most cost‐efficient designs. © 2004 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics, 2005

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  • Thomas Stidsen & Arne John Glenstrup, 2005. "Quantifying optimal mesh and ring design costs," Naval Research Logistics (NRL), John Wiley & Sons, vol. 52(2), pages 150-158, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:wly:navres:v:52:y:2005:i:2:p:150-158
    DOI: 10.1002/nav.20008
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