The future Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) based optical networks are expected to provide new Intelligent Wavelength Services (IWS) for the transport of all types of data (voice, multi-media, Web-based data, etc.) at bit rates exceeding I TBit/s. The survivability of such networks will depend on efficient protection mechanisms. Although several protection strategies will be proposed to the customers, managing the complexity of protection-related interactions between client layers and the optical network will become a considerable challenge. In this paper, we develop a number of statements related to the management of IWS and we propose an approach based on intelligent and mobile agents in order to tackle the management of protection-related client requirements. In that scope, we introduce the notion of p-groups as a possible client requirement and we define a Quality of Protection (QoP) as a new metric to assess the protection quality during the lifetime of client connections.
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Rossier-Ramuz, D., Rodellar, D., & Scheurer, R. (2002). An Intelligent and Mobile Agent-based Approach for Dynamic Protection Set-up in Future Optical Networks (pp. 101–117). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35491-0_7
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