OpenFlow and Multi-layer Extensions: Overview and Next Steps

Author

Shirazipour, Meral ; Zhang, Ying ; Beheshti, Neda ; Lefebvre, Geoffrey ; Tatipamula, Mallik

fYear

2012

fDate

25-26 Oct. 2012

Firstpage

13

Lastpage

17

Abstract

Even though software-defined networking (SDN) and the OpenFlow protocol have demonstrated great practicality in the packet domain, there has been some hesitance in extending the OpenFlow specification to circuit and optical switched domains that constitute wide area multi-layer transport networks. This paper presents an overview of various proposals with regards to extending OpenFlow to support circuit switched multi-layer networks. The goal is to shed light on these ideas and propose a way forward. This paper favors a top-down approach, which relies on transport network´s main SDN use case: packet-optical integration, to help identify the sufficient extensions for OpenFlow to support circuit/optical switching.

Keywords

circuit switching; optical multilayers; optical switches; protocols; OpenFlow protocol; OpenFlow specification; SDN use case; circuit domain; circuit switched multilayer network; multilayer extension; optical switched domain; packet domain; packet-optical integration; software-defined networking; top-down approach; wide area multilayer transport network; Optical fiber networks; Optical packet switching; Optical switches; Proposals; Protocols; Switching circuits; Multi-Layer; OpenFlow; Packet-Optical; SDN; Transport;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software Defined Networking (EWSDN), 2012 European Workshop on

Conference_Location

Darmstadt

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-4554-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EWSDN.2012.22

Filename

6385041