Network Protection Codes: Providing Self-healing in Autonomic Networks Using Network Coding

Agile recovery from link failures in autonomic communication networks is essential to increase robustness, accessibility, and reliability of data transmission. However, this must be done with the least amount of protection resources, while using simple management plane functionality. Recently, network coding has been proposed as a solution to provide agile and cost efficient network self-healing against link failures, in a manner that does not require data rerouting, packet retransmission, or failure localization, hence leading to simple control and management planes. To achieve this, separate paths have to be provisioned to carry encoded packets, hence requiring either the addition of extra links, or reserving some of the resources for this purpose. In this paper we introduce autonomic self-healing strategies for autonomic networks in order to protect against link failures. The strategies are based on network coding and reduced capacity, which is a technique that we call network prote...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2008
• Where: CORR
• Authors: Salah A. Aly, Ahmed E. Kamal
• Keywords: Autonomic Networks, CORR 2008, Education, Link Failures, Network Protection Code