Link Weight Optimization for Enhancing IP Resilience Using Multi-Plane Routing

With the increasing importance of the Internet for delivering personal and business applications, the slow re-convergence after network failure of existing routing protocols becomes a significant problem. This is especially true for real time multimedia services where service disruption cannot be generally tolerated. In order to ensure fast network failure recovery, IP Fast Re-Route (FRR) can be adopted to immediately reroute affected customer traffic from the default path onto a backup path when link failure occurs, thus avoiding slow Interior Gateway Protocol (IGP) re-convergence. The authors notice that IGP link weight setting plays an important role in influencing the protection coverage performance in intra-domain link failures.