COMPUTER AND INFORMATION SCIENCES - ISCIS 2003, vol.2869, pp.771-778, 2003 (SCI-Expanded)
Neural-network-based optical network restoration is illustrated over an example in which multiple classes of traffic are considered. Over the pre-planned primary and backup capacity, optimal routing and wavelength assignment is carried out. In case of a network failure, protection routes and optimum flow values on these protection routes are extracted from a previously trained feed-forward neural network which is distributed over the optical data communications network.