Experimenting the integration of green optical access and metro networks based on SDN

Author

Valcarenghi, L. ; Kondepu, K. ; Sgambelluri, A. ; Cugini, F. ; Castoldi, P. ; Rodriguez de los Santos, G. ; Aparicio Morenilla, R. ; Larrabeiti Lopez, D.

Author_Institution

Scuola Superiore Sant´Anna, Pisa, Italy

fYear

2015

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

This paper outlines the issues in providing a seamless integration between energy-efficient optical access networks and metro networks that preserves the overall latency balance. A solution based on SDN is proposed and detailed. The proposed solution allows to trade the increased delay in the access section, due the utilization of energy efficient schemes, with a reduced delay in the metro section. Experiments in a geographically distributed testbed evaluate the different delay contributions.

Keywords

green computing; metropolitan area networks; optical fibre LAN; passive optical networks; software defined networking; time division multiplexing; wavelength division multiplexing; PON; SDN; TWDM; access section; delay contributions; delay reduction; energy-efficient optical access networks; energy-efficient optical metro networks; green optical access network integration; green optical metro network integration; metro Ethernet networks; overall latency balance preservation; passive optical networks; software defined networking; time-and-wavelength division multiplexing; Delays; Integrated optics; Optical switches; Passive optical networks; Servers; PON; SDN; TWDM; energy efficiency; metro;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), 2015 17th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Budapest

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICTON.2015.7193625

Filename

7193625