Published January 1994 | Version v1
Journal article

Impact of SONET digital cross-connect system architecture on distributed restoration

  • 1. Bellcore, Redbank, NJ (United States)

Description

The viability of distributed control restoration using Digital Cross-Connect Systems (DC's) depends on its capability for restoring services within specified time requirements, and its economics for providing restoration compared to other alternatives. In this paper, we report a Bellcore study for the impact of the DCS architecture on distributed restoration. This study concludes that currently proposed distributed control DCS self-healing schemes may not meet the 2-s restoration objective for large metropolitan Local Exchange Carrier's networks, regardless of the distributed algorithm used, if the present DCS system architecture which uses serial message processing and serial path cross-connection remains unchanged. This paper also discusses several DCS architecture enhancement options, including a parallel processing/cross-connect DCS architecture, which may improve the service restoration time. 20 refs

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
Journal Volume
12
Journal Issue
1
Journal Page Range
p. 79-87.
ISSN
0733-8716
CODEN
ISACEM