scenario, the intents of the application layer must be accounted in the path computation. There is no single path computation … algorithm selection was identified. The authors have phrased this intent specific lightpath provisioning problem as the path … computation algorithm selection problem. An algorithm selection methodology was proposed with the study of the least congested …

carriers to find new ways of automatic service provisioning. Despite the introduction of numerous path computation procedures … requirements. Furthermore, the existing disjoint path computation procedures do not always find the best possible path between two … nodes. In this paper, we propose a path computation procedure capable of addressing the SDH/SONET multiplexing requirements …