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Stochastic RWA and Lightpath Rerouting in WDM Networks

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  • Maryam Daryalal

    (Department of Decision Sciences, HEC Montréal, Montréal, Québec H3T 2A7, Canada)

  • Merve Bodur

    (Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3GH, Canada)

Abstract

In a telecommunication network, routing and wavelength assignment (RWA) is the problem of finding lightpaths for incoming connection requests. When facing a dynamic traffic, greedy assignment of lightpaths to incoming requests based on predefined deterministic policies leads to a fragmented network that cannot make use of its full capacity because of stranded bandwidth. At this point, service providers try to recover the capacity via a defragmentation process. We study this setting from two perspectives: (i) while granting the connection requests via the RWA problem and (ii) during the defragmentation process by lightpath rerouting. For both problems, we present the first two-stage stochastic integer programming model incorporating incoming request uncertainty to maximize the expected grade of service. We develop a decomposition-based solution approach, which uses various relaxations of the problem and a newly developed problem-specific cut family. Simulation of two-stage policies for a variety of instances in a rolling-horizon framework of 52 stages shows that our stochastic models provide high-quality solutions when compared with traditionally used deterministic ones. Specifically, the proposed provisioning policies yield improvements of up to 19% in overall grade of service and 20% in spectrum saving, while the stochastic lightpath rerouting policies grant up to 36% more requests, using up to just 4% more bandwidth spectrum. Summary of Contribution: For handling the intrinsic uncertainty of demand in the telecommunications industry, this paper proposes novel stochastic models and solution methodology for two fundamental problems in telecommunications at operational level: (i) routing and wavelength assignment (RWA) and (ii) lightpath rerouting problem. Despite the vast literature on the RWA problem, stochastic optimization has not been considered as a viable solution for resource allocation in optical networks. We propose two-stage stochastic programming models for both problems and design efficient decomposition-based solution methods that use various relaxations of the models and a new family of cutting planes. Our extensive and rigorous numerical experiments show the significant merit of incorporating uncertainty into decision making, as well as the effectiveness of the decomposition framework and our newly designed family of cuts in enhancing the solvability of both models. This work opens new avenues to explore where the powerful stochastic programming literature can be leveraged to make operational decisions in telecommunications problems, a field that currently relies mostly on deterministic and heuristic solution methods.

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  • Maryam Daryalal & Merve Bodur, 2022. "Stochastic RWA and Lightpath Rerouting in WDM Networks," INFORMS Journal on Computing, INFORMS, vol. 34(5), pages 2700-2719, September.
  • Handle: RePEc:inm:orijoc:v:34:y:2022:i:5:p:2700-2719
    DOI: 10.1287/ijoc.2022.1179
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