PHOTO: an efficient shared-path-protection strategy based on connection-holding-time awareness

Recent trends in bandwidth markets show that customers are tending to ask providers for a large bandwidth but for a limited amount of time to support new short-term bandwidth-hungry applications. In order to meet these new requirements, progress in network technologies (fast and reconfigurable switching equipment) and protocols [such as generalized multiprotocol label switching (GMPLS) and automat...