TY - GEN A1 - Hülsermann, Ralf A1 - Jäger, Monika A1 - Koster, Arie M.C.A. A1 - Orlowski, Sebastian A1 - Wessäly, Roland A1 - Zymolka, Adrian T1 - Availability and Cost Based Evaluation of Demand-wise Shared Protection N2 - In this paper, we investigate the connection availabilities for the new protection scheme Demand-wise Shared Protection (DSP) and describe an appropriate approach for their computation. The exemplary case study on two realistic network scenarios shows that in most cases the availabilities for DSP are comparable with that for 1+1 path protection and better than in case of shared path protection. T3 - ZIB-Report - 06-15 KW - demand-wise shared protection KW - network availability KW - network optimization Y1 - 2006 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:0297-zib-9080 ER -