Maximum covering planning of survivable Fiber-Wireless access network considering network connectivity

Fiber-Wireless (FiWi) access network is now becoming a promising architecture for access networks. Survivability is one of the key issues in the planning of FiWi access network because many high-rate traffic flows may be interrupted in case of a single fiber failure, which can cause a huge traffic l...

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Published in:Optik (Stuttgart) 2014-12, Vol.125 (23), p.6946-6952
Main Authors: Yu, Yinpeng, Liu, Yejun, Guo, Lei
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Covering
Failure
Fiber-Wireless (FiWi)
Fibers
Maximum coverage
Network survivability
Networks
Protection
Routers
Survivability
Traffic engineering
Traffic flow
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Summary:Fiber-Wireless (FiWi) access network is now becoming a promising architecture for access networks. Survivability is one of the key issues in the planning of FiWi access network because many high-rate traffic flows may be interrupted in case of a single fiber failure, which can cause a huge traffic loss. In addition, the users need ubiquitous broadband access that can be provided by FiWi access network. In this paper, we propose the protection approach called Maximum Covering Planning with Survivability (MCPS), including Integer Linear Programming (ILP) solution and heuristic solution, for the planning of survivable FiWi access network against single distribution fiber failure. The proposed approach aims at maximum coverage under the constraints of network connectivity. When a distribution fiber is broken, the interrupted Optical Network Unit (ONU) can transmit traffic to its backup ONU through the wireless paths between them. Simulation results show the network coverage of clients for different number of ONUs in different urban areas, and demonstrate the relationship between network coverage and the cost represented by the number of WiFi routers.
ISSN:0030-4026
1618-1336
DOI:10.1016/j.ijleo.2014.08.065