A GMPLS-controlled optical testbed for distributed storage services

Author

Yoong, Chai Teck ; Zhou, Luying ; Fook, Victor Foo Siang ; Agrawal, Prashant ; Saradhi, Chava Vijaya ; Qiang, Qiu ; Biswas, Jit ; Ngi, Yeo Heng ; Yonghong, Wilson Wang

Author_Institution

Inst. of Infocomm Res., Singapore

fYear

2004

fDate

29 Nov.-3 Dec. 2004

Firstpage

363

Lastpage

368

Abstract

As services and applications become more integrated with the underlying network, it is desirable to increase the degree of coupling between end-to-end services and the provisioning, monitoring and recovery mechanisms of optical communications channels. In this paper, we describe an experimental demonstration of GMPLS control of an optical network for wide-area distributed storage services. The dynamic nature of GMPLS control enable scheduled backup of distributed storage over high-speed optical lightpaths provisioned on demand. Inter-working issues between application layer and transport layer are discussed, highlighting key design and implementation choices for connectivity discovery, signaling, optical hardware control and service resilience.

Keywords

multiprotocol label switching; optical fibre networks; telecommunication control; telecommunication services; telecommunication signalling; GMPLS-controlled optical testbed; distributed storage service; high-speed optical lightpath; multiprotocol label switching; optical communications channel; optical hardware control; Communication system control; Dynamic scheduling; High speed optical techniques; Lighting control; Monitoring; Optical control; Optical coupling; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber networks; Testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Global Telecommunications Conference Workshops, 2004. GlobeCom Workshops 2004. IEEE

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8798-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/GLOCOMW.2004.1417603

Filename

1417603