Ni, W.W.NiPatzak, E.E.PatzakSchlosser, M.M.SchlosserZhang, H.H.Zhang2022-03-112022-03-112010https://publica.fraunhofer.de/handle/publica/36835510.1109/ICC.2010.55028002-s2.0-77955395780This paper studies quantitatively the benefit of startup-failure-driven backup path reprovisioning in terms of connection availability in shared-path-protected optical networks. Numerical results show that shared path protection with startup-failure-driven reprovisioning reduces connection unavailability, and is most efficient when the capacity utilization during the no-failure phases is around 60%.en621conference paper