Experimenting Hierarchical PCE architecture in a distributed multi-platform control plane testbed

Author

Paolucci, Francesco ; de Dios, O.G. ; Casellas, Ramon ; Duhovnikov, S. ; Castoldi, Piero ; Munoz, Raul ; Martinez, Ricardo

Author_Institution

CNIT, Scuola Superiore Sant´´Anna, Pisa, Italy

fYear

2012

fDate

4-8 March 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

A distributed control plane testbed, connecting four European institutions, is developed to enable interoperability testing among independent PCE platforms and evaluate inter-domain computation algorithms based on the Hierarchical PCE. Performance results are detailed and discussed.

Keywords

computer network performance evaluation; computer testing; open systems; optical fibre networks; protocols; telecommunication switching; telecommunication traffic; wavelength division multiplexing; European institutions; PCE protocol; backward recursive PCE-based computation procedure; distributed multiplatform control plane testbed; distributed wavelength switched optical networks; hierarchical PCE architecture; independent PCE platforms; interdomain computation algorithms; interoperability testing; path computation element; traffic engineering; Computer architecture; Distributed control; Message systems; Network topology; Random access memory; Routing; Topology;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC/NFOEC), 2012 and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference

Conference_Location

Los Angeles, CA

ISSN

pending

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-0262-3

Type

conf

Filename

6476454