Restoration algorithm with wavelength reservation collision avoidance in ASON

Aiming at the problem of link fault restoration in ASON, an improved equalizing routing algorithm (ERA) is introduced to proportion the load at the routing phase. In order to solve the easy blocking problem for the network without wavelength converter because of the wavelength continuity constraint, the algorithm WRCA is proposed at the wavelength assignment phase. This algorithm is realized by adding collision detection object (CDO) in the path message of the resource reservation protocol with traffic engineering extension (RSVP TE). Depending on the value of the CD flag, different wavelength selection strategies are applied at the destination node, and the blocks resulting from wavelength reservation collision are reduced. The simulation experiments compare four wavelength assignment algorithms with the same routing algorithm ERA. The results show that compared with the traditional first fit algorithm (FF) and random fit algorithm (RD), the FF and RD employing CD scheme can effectively reduce the blocking ratio of the whole network, and enhance the practical applicability of the restoration algorithms.