QoS Recovery Schemes based on Differentiate MPLS Services in All-Optical Transport Network

The Internet is evolving from best-effort service toward an integrated or differentiate service framework with Quality of Service (QoS) assurances that are required for new multimedia service applications. Given this increasing demand for high bandwidth Internet with QoS assurances in the coming years, IP/MPLS based control plane combined with wavelength-routed Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) optical network is seen as a very promising approach for the realization of future re-configurable transport network. Fault and attack survivability issues concerning physical security in DWDM All-Optical Transport Network (AOTN) require a new approach taking into consideration AOTN physical characteristics. Furthermore, unlike in electronic networks that regenerate signals at every node, attack detection and isolation schemes may not have access to the overhead bits used to transport supervisory information between regenerators or switching sites to perform their functions. This paper presents an analysis of attack and protection problems in AOTN. Considering this, we propose a framework for QoS guarantees based on Differentiate MPLS Service (DMS) model and QoS recovery schemes against QoS degradation led by devices failures or attack-induced faults in AOTN. We also suggest how to integrate our attack management model into the NIST’s simulator – Modeling, Evaluation and Research of Lightwave Networks (MERLiN).