In view of the working principle of the optical WDM network
the concept of directional P-cycle is presented and the directional P-cycle-based protection mechanism and deployment strategy expounded.Then the coupling cycle joint method and a heuristic algorithm for the growth of P-cycles and network protection resource deployment based on this method are proposed.Finally
simulations are conducted in COST239 and NSFnet topologies on the ASON-WDM platform set up by using OPNET Modeler.The results show that the algorithm and the deployment strategy are effective and feasible.