Light-trail is a solution to providing high resource utilization and sub-wavelength support [1]. A light-trail is a
multi-point light-path, such that multiple users can take part in communication along the trail, through time
(differentiated) non-overlapping connections. This multi-point flow model leads to a new set of problems in the area of
protecting and restoring light-trail based networks. Conventional link protection which just protects the existed
connection in the light-trail at the time of the failure is not sufficient for light-trails because of the potential of having
multiple possible source-destination pairs in the same trail over time. The fact is demonstrated and explained detailedly
in [4]. In this paper, a novel protection mechanism is proposed for light-trail WDM mesh network, which is Backup
Light-trail Expending scheme. Subsequently the performance of this scheme is evaluated and compared to conventional
Connection Dedicated Protection Scheme. Numerical results obtained by simulation indicate that, Backup Light-trail
Expending Scheme has a faster restoration time and better wavelength utilization.
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