Computer Science – Networking and Internet Architecture
Scientific paper
2008-12-04
Computer Science
Networking and Internet Architecture
12 pages, 2 figures, and 3 tables
Scientific paper
Agile recovery from link failures in autonomic communication networks is essential to increase robustness, accessibility, and reliability of data transmission. However, this must be done with the least amount of protection resources, while using simple management plane functionality. Recently, network coding has been proposed as a solution to provide agile and cost efficient network self-healing against link failures, in a manner that does not require data rerouting, packet retransmission, or failure localization, hence leading to simple control and management planes. To achieve this, separate paths have to be provisioned to carry encoded packets, hence requiring either the addition of extra links, or reserving some of the resources for this purpose. In this paper we introduce autonomic self-healing strategies for autonomic networks in order to protect against link failures. The strategies are based on network coding and reduced capacity, which is a technique that we call network protection codes (NPC). In these strategies, an autonomic network is able to provide self-healing from various network failures affecting network operation. The techniques improve service and enhance reliability of autonomic communication. Network protection codes are extended to provide self-healing from multiple link failures in autonomic networks. We provide implementation aspects of the proposed strategies. We present bounds and network protection code constructions. Finally, we study the construction of such codes over the binary field. The paper also develops an Integer Linear Program formulation to evaluate the cost of provisioning connections using the proposed strategies.
Aly Salah A.
Kamal Ahmed E.
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