Optical multicast provisioning with differentiated leaf availability guarantee in WDM networks

As multicast applications become more and more popular, implementing multicast in the optical domain has attracted increased attention due to its more efficient bandwidth usage. And also these services have quality-of-service requirements. In this article, the problem of cost-effective optical multicast provisioning to satisfy the differentiated leaf availability requirements is formally stated. A Mixed Integer Linear Program formulation is proposed for provisioning dedicated light-tree protection with differentiated leaf availability guarantee. The algorithm is so complex and infeasible that we also propose a feasible two-step approximate approach to solve the problem. Different from the previous schemes, our scheme finds out the primary light-trees and backup paths for destination nodes whose availability is not satisfied. Because of taking the different leaf availability requirements into account, the proposed algorithm obtains a more efficient feasible solution requiring less network resources.