@techreport{bala-protection-restoration-signaling-00, number = {draft-bala-protection-restoration-signaling-00}, type = {Internet-Draft}, institution = {Internet Engineering Task Force}, publisher = {Internet Engineering Task Force}, note = {Work in Progress}, url = {https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-bala-protection-restoration-signaling/00/}, author = {Dr. Bala Rajagopalan}, title = {{Signaling for Protection and Restoration in Optical Mesh Networks}}, pagetotal = 18, year = 2001, month = nov, day = 19, abstract = {Protection and restoration of switched connections under tight time constraints is a challenging problem in optical mesh networks. This draft describes different local and end-to-end protection modes for connections, and the message flow required for protection and restoration-related signaling.}, }