Performance Evaluation of Survivability Strategies for Elastic Optical Networks under Physical Layer Impairments

This paper carried out a performance evaluation study that compares two survivability strategies (DPP and SM-RSA) for elastic optical networks with and without physical layer impairments. The evaluated scenarios include three representative topologies for elastic optical network, NSFNET, EON and USA. It also analyzes the increase of blocking probability when the survivability strategies are evaluated under the realistic scenario that assumes physical layer impairments. For all studied topologies under physical layer impairments, the survivability strategies achieved blocking probability above 80%.