In view of the obvious deficiencies of the traditional pre-configured cycle(p-cycle)protection algorithm for the new Optical Transport Network(OTN)in protection efficiency and resource utilization
this paper presents an improved algorithm. As there are different workloads in two ways of links
this algorithm improves the resource utilization rate by prioritizing the selection of jumping links and increases protection efficiency in the case of limited resources.Simulation results in pan-European COST239network show that this new algorithm significantly increases the resource utilization and is superior to the traditional p-cycle protection algorithm in protection efficiency.