The development of Internet brings a great challenge to the survivability of the supporting distributed intelligent optical networks. The emergence of Active-Fault-Alarm (AFA) technology makes it possible for the system to be aware of the incoming or possible fault in advance and to provide possibility to develop a more active restoration mechanism. On this base, an Active Segment Pre-Restoration (ASPR) mechanism for distributed optical network is proposed. ASPR allows establishing a Segment Pre-Restoration Path (SPR-Path) as a work path, which is initiated by the local node, in advance of potential fault occuring and keeps the SPR-Path only during the low-quality or fault period. Simulation results show that the ASPR mechanism has better restoration performance compared with that of Active Restoration (AR) scheme.
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