Aiming at the problem that multi-link faults in elastic optical networks affect the performance of virtual optical network mapping
a method of link Reliability-Aware Protection-differentiated Virtual Optical Network Embedding (RA-PVONE) is proposed in the paper. In the RA-PVONE
an importance evaluation criteria and priority mapping method of optical nodes are designed. According to the available spectrum resources and link failure probability of candidate optical paths
the link cost updating formulas for working and protecting optical paths are designed to map the virtual link. Protection optical paths sharing spectrum resource is only configured for working optical path that do not meet the virtual link's reliability requirements. The simulation results show that the proposed method can reduce the network bandwidth blocking probability
improve virtual network acceptance ratio and the spectrum resource utilization.