Traffic allocation strategies in WSS-based dynamic optical networks

Elastic optical networking (EON) is a viable solution to meet future dynamic capacity requirements of Internet service provider and inter-datacenter networks. At the core of EON, wavelength selective switches (WSSs) are applied to individually route optical circuits, while assigning an arbitrary ban...

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Autores: Shakeri, Ali, Garrich, Miquel, Bravalheri, Anderson, Careglio, Davide|||0000-0002-7931-8147, Solé Pareta, Josep|||0000-0002-9411-6308, Fumagalli, Andrea
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2017
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repositorio:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/105343
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2117/105343
https://dx.doi.org/10.1364/JOCN.9.00B112
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Optical communications
Switching circuits
Circuit switching
Optical networks
Software defined networking
Wavelength selective switch
Comunicacions òptiques
Circuits de commutació
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Enginyeria de la telecomunicació::Telecomunicació òptica
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Sumario:Elastic optical networking (EON) is a viable solution to meet future dynamic capacity requirements of Internet service provider and inter-datacenter networks. At the core of EON, wavelength selective switches (WSSs) are applied to individually route optical circuits, while assigning an arbitrary bandwidth to each circuit. Critically, the WSS control scheme and configuration time may delay the creation time of each circuit in the network. In this paper, we first detail the WSS-based optical data-plane implementation of a metropolitan network test-bed. Then, we review a software-defined networking (SDN) application designed to enable dynamic and fast circuit setup. Subsequently, we introduce a WSS logical model that captures the WSS time-sequence and is used to estimate the circuit-setup response time. Then, we present two batch service policies that aim to reduce the circuit-setup response time by bundling multiple WSS reconfiguration steps into a single SDN command. Resulting performance gains are estimated through simulation.