Re: [Mter] Any news?

Dear Diego,

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>Section 6.1 quotes AIS as possible mechanism to detect failures.
>
>Is the following possible issue in the scope of MTER (actually is a
>partitioning problem rather that a layer problem)
>
>a<--------->b<--------->c<------->D<--------->E<---------->F<---------->G<-------->h<---------->i<-------->z
>
>Caps letters indicates GMPLS capable nodes while the low caps are legacy
>SDH/SONET nodes.
>
>One can say that D, E, F, G is the backbone network while a, b, c and h, i,
>z are two access network.
>
>A network operator wants to set up a trail fom a to z, we can see that
>trail made by three pieces:
>1)    a<----->D
>2)    D<----->G
>3)    G<----->z
>
>Pieces 1 and 3 are set-up via NMS and are not under the control of the
>GMPLS while piece 2 is an e2e restored circuit.
>
>If the AIS is used as trigger for the GMPLS restoration a failure in either
>piece 1 or 2 (that injects AIS along all the trail) can trigger the e2e
>GMPLS recovery scheme.  Given that the failure is not recoverable inside
>the piece 2, the risk is that restoration never ends.
>
>  
>
You are right this is an issue. However, I believe the typical solution 
to overcome this problem is establishing a tandem connection in each of 
the three segments and making use of the sublayer supervision function 
in order to allow detecting whether the failure occured ON or UPSTREAM 
OF the tandem connection.
For example: when a failure occurs in segment 1 (thus a<---->D) then D 
will translate the the AU_AIS into a IncAIS (N-bytes in the path 
overhead of the tandem connection D->G). G will detect this IncAIS and 
will simply generate AIS downstream. However, when segment 2 fails (thus 
D<--->G), then G may receive an AU_AIS (and not a IncAIS) implying that 
it has to trigger the GMPLS P&R.

Kind regards,

Didier

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