Quality of Transmission Awareness in Converged Electronic and Optical Networks with OpenFlow

Author

Weiyang Mo ; Jun He ; Karbassian, M.M. ; Wissinger, John ; Peyghambarian, N.

Author_Institution

Coll. of Opt. Sci., Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA

Volume

17

Issue

5

fYear

2013

fDate

41395

Firstpage

1036

Lastpage

1039

Abstract

OpenFlow, as a unified operator-friendly manageable network control approach, has benefits of supporting the convergence of electronic packet and optical circuit networks as well as quality-of-transmission (QoT) awareness. We experimentally present the QoT-awareness in converged OpenFlow networks with (i) QoT-aware wavelength reassignment (ii) QoT-aware path re-routing if the QoT is below the requirement. The experimental work validates efficient networking approach and provides a key direction for next generation software defined networks.

Keywords

optical communication; telecommunication network routing; wavelength assignment; OpenFlow; QoT; electronic packet; next generation software defined networks; optical circuit networks; path re-routing; quality-of-transmission awareness; transmission awareness quality; unified operator-friendly manageable network control; wavelength reassignment; Adaptive optics; Optical fiber networks; Optical noise; Optical packet switching; Optical switches; Signal to noise ratio; OpenFlow control plane; packet and circuit switched networks convergence; quality-of-transmission awareness; wavelength reassignment;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Communications Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1089-7798

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LCOMM.2013.031313.122873

Filename

6484239