Demonstration of a fully functional optical burst switched network with application layer resource reservation capability

Automated transport service management in the future Internet: concepts and operations

“…This paper builds on concepts previously used to investigate with reference to Grid services on optical network, using a fast optical switching technology to support shortlived consumer grid applications [4,5] interacting with OBS control plane [6,7], as well as with reference to the implementation of multimedia services with QoS guarantees in GMPLS-controlled networks [8,9].…”

Demonstration of dynamic application-aware labelled optical burst switched network

“…Examples of such applications could be e-health, high-definition interactive TV, home video editing, real-time rendering and consumer grids, etc. As these applications evolve, there is an increasing need for an adaptive and efficient network infrastructure able to support all these application types, and provide efficient and scalable resource discovery and management capability.To address this issue, two novel OBS network scenarios have been proposed and demonstrated in recent years, including the session initiation protocol (SIP)-based OBS network [4,5] and the peer-topeer (P2P)-based OBS network [6,7], which utilise the SIP or P2P protocol to negotiate and manage the application sessions (i.e. non-network resource discovery and allocation) and OBS signalling to reserve optical network resource and manage the physical layer connections.…”

“…non-network resource discovery and allocation) and OBS signalling to reserve optical network resource and manage the physical layer connections. However, as analysed in [8], the SIP-based OBS network proposed in [4,5] is only suitable for the first type of application mentioned above and it cannot address the requirements of the second application for the poor scalability and fault-tolerance of the client-server model. In contrast, the P2P-based OBS network [6,7] can provide an efficient and scalable resource discovery and management capability for the consumer oriented application, but it is not efficient for the first application owing to the high signalling overhead of the P2P protocol.…”

“…To address this issue, two novel OBS network scenarios have been proposed and demonstrated in recent years, including the session initiation protocol (SIP)-based OBS network [4,5] and the peer-topeer (P2P)-based OBS network [6,7], which utilise the SIP or P2P protocol to negotiate and manage the application sessions (i.e. non-network resource discovery and allocation) and OBS signalling to reserve optical network resource and manage the physical layer connections.…”

“…Each SIP module sets a threshold according to its processing ability. When the job requests a frequency lower than this threshold, all the job requests are processed by the SIP module for resource discovery and management, as described in [4,5]; when the job requests a frequency that is higher than the threshold, the SIP module will dynamically send the new arrival requests to the P2P layer [6] through the SIP -P2P transformation interface for peerto-peer resource discovery and management, as described in detail in [6]. Experimental demonstration, results and discussion: The network operations can be described as follows and are shown in Fig.…”