@techreport{TR-IC-17-04,
   number = {IC-17-04},
   author = {Helder M. N. S. Oliveira and Nelson L. S. da Fonseca},
   title = {{The Minimum Interference p-Cycle Algorithm for Protection
                   of  Space  Division  Multiplexing  Elastic  Optical 
                   Networks}},
   month = {April},
   year = {2017},
   institution = {Institute of Computing, University of Campinas},
   note = {In English, 13 pages.
    \par\selectlanguage{english}\textbf{Abstract}
       In  optical  networks, failures can imply in great loss of data
       due  to  high  transmission  rates,  leading  to  the  need  of 
       employment  of  protection  mechanisms. This paper introduces a
       novel  algorithm to provide Failure-independent path protecting
       p-cycle  with  minimum  interference  for  path  protection  in 
       elastic optical networks using space division multiplexing. The
       proposed  protection  algorithm  reduces  rejections  of future
       requests  and  make  no  assumption  about specific patterns of
       arrival  of  requests.  The  algorithm  is  compared  to FIPPMC
       algorithm  and  a algorithm based on methods of \cite{6958538}.
       Results  indicate that the 100\% protection for single failures
       can be provided by the proposed algorithm.
  }
}