Title :
Experimental demonstration of OpenFlow control of packet and circuit switches
Author :
Gudla, Vinesh ; Das, Saurav ; Shastri, Anujit ; Parulkar, Guru ; McKeown, Nick ; Kazovsky, Leonid ; Yamashita, Shinji
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Stanford Univ., Stanford, CA, USA
Abstract :
OpenFlow is presented as a unified control plane and architecture for packet and circuit switched networks. We demonstrate a simple proof-of-concept testbed, where a bidirectional wavelength circuit is dynamically created to transport a TCP flow.
Keywords :
circuit switching; packet switching; transport protocols; OpenFlow control; TCP flow; bidirectional wavelength circuit; circuit switched networks; circuit switches; packet switched networks; packet switches; unified control plane; Automatic control; Circuit testing; Costs; Hardware; Optical packet switching; Packet switching; Proposals; Protocols; Switches; Switching circuits;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communication (OFC), collocated National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference, 2010 Conference on (OFC/NFOEC)
Conference_Location :
San Diego, CA
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-55752-884-1
