DocumentCode :
1789316
Title :
Joint architecture of data and control planes for Optical Flow Switched networks
Author :
Lei Zhang ; Chan, Vincent
Author_Institution :
Claude E. Shannon Commun. & NetworkGroup, RLE Massachusetts Inst. of Technol., Cambridge, MA, USA
fYear :
2014
fDate :
10-14 June 2014
Firstpage :
3425
Lastpage :
3431
Abstract :
In Optical Flow Switched networks, the control plane manages the data plane, performs scheduling, reconfigures the network, etc. For large wide area networks the scale of the data plane and the stochastic nature of the requests pose big challenges in achieving both data plane responsiveness/efficiency and control plane scalability which are coupled. In this work, we give an overview of the control functions and a scheduling algorithm for an OFS network. We consider two possible WAN lightpath topology architectures: meshed or tunneled. We use the blocking probability and throughput of the data plane to provide a common platform for the performance comparison of the designs of the control plane and algorithm complexity. With high traffic demands, the tunneled architecture provides comparable data plane performance as the meshed architecture but requires much less network management and control traffic and processing complexity and is thus much more scalable to large networks.
Keywords :
optical fibre networks; probability; scheduling; telecommunication network topology; telecommunication traffic; wide area networks; OFS network; WAN lightpath topology architectures; control plane; data plane responsiveness; meshed architecture; optical flow switched networks; tunneled architecture; wide area networks; Computer architecture; Loading; Network topology; Optical fiber networks; Optical switches; Schedules; Wide area networks; Optical Flow Switching; control plane performance; data plane performance; joint architecture; network management and control; scheduling algorithm;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Communications (ICC), 2014 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Sydney, NSW
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/ICC.2014.6883851
Filename :
6883851
Link To Document :
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