Method, system and node for implementing automatic protection switching in optical burst-switching ring

• US 9,998,212 B2
• Filed: 06/19/2014
• Issued: 06/12/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 07/16/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: ZTE Corporation
• Original Assignee: ZTE Corporation
• Inventors: Guo, Hongxiang, Zhang, Dongxu, Chen, Xue, Wu, Jian, An, Gaofeng
• Primary Examiner(s): Payne, David
• Assistant Examiner(s): Barua, Pranesh
• Application Number:
  US14/905,849
• Publication Number:
  US 20160156410A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,454 Days
• Field of Search: 398 2, 398 45, 398 59, 398 83
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 10/032 using working and protection systems H04J14/0287 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 10/07955 Monitoring or measuring power
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 10/275 Ring-type networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/437 Ring fault isolation or reconfiguration for SDH/SONET ring networks H04J3/085
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0668 by dynamic selection of recovery network elements, e.g. replacement by the most appropriate element after failure
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 11/0066 Provisions for optical burst or packet networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2011/0081 Fault tolerance; Redundancy; Recovery; Reconfigurability
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2011/0092 Ring

Abstract

Provided are a method, a system and a node for implementing APS in an OBRing network. The method comprises: a master node and a slave node separately perform optical power monitoring on respective channels, and aggregate monitoring results to the master node; when determining, according to the monitoring results, that a fault occurs, the master node sends a switching operation instruction to the slave node; and the slave node performs a switching operation and enters a protection working state. With the disclosure, a protection switching mechanism is introduced to the OBRing, which implements the processing on fault and ensures the communication quality of the OBRing.

Claims

1. A method for implementing Automatic Protection Switching (APS) in an Optical Burst-switching Ring (OBRing) network, comprising:

performing separately, by a master node and one and more slave nodes, optical power monitoring on respective channels, and aggregating monitoring results to the master node;

when determining, according to the monitoring results, that a fault occurs, sending, by the master node, a switching operation instruction to each slave node of the one or more slave nodes; and

performing a switching operation and entering a protection working state, by the each slave node;

wherein based on that the master node is located at one end of a fault point, the method further comprises;

performing a switching operation by the master node itself, and triggering, by the master node, a protection switch to enter a protection state;

otherwise, directly entering the protection working state by the master node;

wherein before the slave node performs the switching operation, the method further comprises;

after the slave node receives a switching operation instruction, judging, by the slave node, whether the slave node is one of the nodes located at two ends of the fault point;

based on that the slave node is not one of the nodes located at two ends of the fault point, the slave node directly entering the protection working state and waiting the master node to reallocate bandwidth;

based on that the slave node is one of the nodes located at two ends of the fault node, entering the protection working state according to the switching operation instruction after performing a switching operation on the protection.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the optical power monitoring comprises real-time monitoring of optical power states of a control channel and a data channel.

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein aggregating the monitoring results to the master node comprises:

transmitting, by the each slave node, the monitoring result carried in a control frame or a new fault report message to the master node through the control channel;

the monitoring result of the master node comprises a real-time monitoring result that the master node monitors the optical power states of the control channel and the data channel and the monitoring result reported by the each slave node through the control channel.

4. The method according to claim 2, wherein the determining, according to the monitoring results, that the fault occurs comprises:

when the monitoring results show that there is only one ring having a node reporting optical loss on both control channel and data channel, determining that the fault is a single-fibre single-point line fault;

when the monitoring results show that there are two rings respectively having a node, which is adjacent to each other, reporting optical loss on both control channel and data channel, determining that the fault is a double-fibre single-point line fault;

when the monitoring results show that there is only one node reporting optical loss on the control channel, determining that the fault is a control channel transmitter fault;

when the monitoring results show that both rings have an exception in receiving of control frames, determining that the fault is a non-master node paralysis.

5. The method according to claim 4, wherein when the fault indicates that there is a wavelength fault in a data channel which does not affect an operation of an entire network, the method further comprises:

notifying, by the master node, related nodes to avoid the data channel with an unavailable wavelength, and reporting, by the master node, a condition to a network management system.

6. The method according to claim 3, further comprising:

feeding back, by the each slave node, a control frame indicating a successful switching operation to the master node;

or, feeding back a fault report response message indicating a successful switching operation corresponding to the fault report message.

7. The method according to claim 1, wherein performing the switching operation on the protection switch to enter the protection working state comprises:

switching the protection switch from a bar state which is a normal working state to a cross state;

or,

scheduling the control channel from one ring to another ring in an electrical domain.

8. The method according to claim 1, wherein after entering the protection working state, the method further comprises:

sharing one control channel, by all transceivers of the master node and each slave node;

dividing each node into an upper node and a lower node logically, which correspond to transceivers on the original inner ring and outer ring respectively, wherein the upper node extracts from a control frame the bandwidth configuration information of an upper link and performs Optical Burst-switching (OB) transceiving according to the bandwidth configuration information of the upper link, and the lower node extracts, from a control frame, bandwidth configuration information of a lower link and performs OB transceiving according to the bandwidth configuration information of the lower link.

9. The method according to claim 8, wherein the master node is divided into an upper master node and a lower master node logically and the method further comprises:

when the control frame flows through the upper master node, all bandwidth request information of the lower link is aggregated to the upper master node, and the upper master node calculates a corresponding bandwidth configuration policy according to a bandwidth allocation algorithm and fills the corresponding bandwidth configuration policy into a control frame;

when the control frame flows through a first node on the lower link, the carried bandwidth allocation policy of the lower link begin to take effect;

correspondingly, when the control frame flows through the lower master node, all bandwidth requests of the upper node are submitted and a corresponding bandwidth allocation policy of the upper link is updated according to the bandwidth allocation algorithm.

10. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

ranging by the master node, and fine tuning, by the master node, a ring length according to a ranging result.

11. The method according to claim 10, further comprising:

recovering normal transmission of services on the master node and each slave node.

12. The method according to claim 11, wherein after the fault is recovered, the method further comprises:

transmitting, by the network, an instruction through the network management system to notify the master node and the each slave node to enter a normal dual-ring working state from the protection working state.

13. The method according to claim 12, wherein entering to the normal dual-ring working state comprises:

after the master node receives the instruction from the network management system, sending, by the master node, a control frame carrying a network recovery indication on the control channel, wherein the control frame is processed and forwarded at all approached nodes;

suspending all services and waiting a new restart by the approached nodes, meanwhile,

when the nodes at two ends of the fault section terminates service transmission, switching back the protection switch from the cross state to the bar state which is the normal working state, or, stopping the cross-ring forwarding of the control channel in an electrical domain, and recovering to the normal working state.

14. The method according to claim 13, wherein after the master node sends the control frame carrying the network recovery indication, the method further comprises:

enabling a new turn of ranging, bandwidth allocation and restart by the master node immediately or after receiving a response indicating waiting from the each slave node.