7. Conclusions
In this paper, we have proposed and evaluated a heuristic algo- rithm which realizes VNE for 1 + 1 site protection to meet Telco- grade network protection and service availability requirements. In approaching this issue, we do not relax the problem by using path splitting as that is unrealistic in operational networks. We also dis- tinguish between server nodes and switching nodes, as a server node cannot be mapped on a switching node. Our algorithm achieves sound correlation between node and 968 link embedding, consumes less bandwidth and provides higher success rate than any conventional approach. Evaluation results also show that our algorithm performance in finding out a VNE solution is close to the theoretical ceiling. In our future work, we will address VN node mapping over multiple sites in order to fur- ther optimize site resources and backup path optimization in order to further reduce the consumption of link resources. In addition, we intend to further analyze the performance of the proposed VNE 975 algorithm in failure scenarios focusing of service recovery latency.