Application-network collaborative bandwidth on-demand for uncompressed HDTV transmission in IP-optical networks

In this paper, we present an architecture design of application-network collaborative bandwidth on-demand (BoD) network service. For emerging ultra-high-bandwidth data transmission, such as HDTV streaming and Tera-byte class remote file transfer, network providers are expected to offer flexible use of the high performance of the optical network resources. This paper addresses the uncompressed HDTV transmission as the application, IP-optical networking as the network control, and the collaboration interface of those designed in order to enable three different types of network allocation: immediate BoD, reservation for future bandwidth, and planned bandwidth reservation for file transfer. Experimental deployment and the results are also shown.