Leveraging the Survivable All-Optical WDM Network Design With Network Coding Assignment

This letter investigates a novel use of network coding (NC) in 1 + 1 protection for transparent wavelength-division multiplexing networks by utilizing a cost-effective all-optical XOR encoder/decoder. In applying this scheme, we introduce a new problem, called routing, wavelength, and NC assignment, and formulate it as the integer linear programming model, aiming at maximizing the network throughput under constrained bandwidth capacity. We evaluate our proposal on the realistic topology, COST239, with all-to-one traffic setting. The numerical results on studied case show that the our NC-based approach could support up to 30% traffic more than the conventional 1 + 1 protection.