Survivability of high-capacity optical wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) mesh networks has received much research attention for many years now. These networks are typically designed to survive single component failures. The method of pre-configured protection cycles (p-cycles) promises to achieve ring-like high speed protection with mesh-like high efficiency in use of spare capacity. In such networks, which are designed to with- stand only single failures, service availability comes to depend on dual-failure (or more) considerations. Hence, availability-aware service provisioning emerged...