Integrated OpenFlow–GMPLS Control Plane: An Overlay Model for Software Defined Packet over Optical Networks

Azodolmolky,; Nejabati,; Escalona,; Jayakumar,; Efstathiou, Sophia; Simeonidou,

doi:10.1364/ecoc.2011.tu.5.k.5

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“…Circuit and packet switched networks are typically managed using separate infrastructure and this is costly. Several authors have proposed OpenFlow-based architectures that could be used to manage both packet and optical circuit networks using the same infrastructure [66], [67], [68], [69], [79]. Azodolmolky et al [80] provide a good explanation on how OpenFlow and GMPLS can be used together as an integrated control plane.…”

Section: E Network Virtualization Using Mpls and Gmplsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Network Innovation using OpenFlow: A Survey

Lara

Kolasani

Ramamurthy

2014

IEEE Commun. Surv. Tutorials

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Abstract-OpenFlow is currently the most commonly deployed Software Defined Networking (SDN) technology. SDN consists of decoupling the control and data planes of a network. A softwarebased controller is responsible for managing the forwarding information of one or more switches; the hardware only handles the forwarding of traffic according to the rules set by the controller. OpenFlow is an SDN technology proposed to standardize the way that a controller communicates with network devices in an SDN architecture. It was proposed to enable researchers to test new ideas in a production environment. OpenFlow provides a specification to migrate the control logic from a switch into the controller. It also defines a protocol for the communication between the controller and the switches.As discussed in this survey paper, OpenFlow-based architectures have specific capabilities that can be exploited by researchers to experiment with new ideas and test novel applications. These capabilities include software-based traffic analysis, centralized control, dynamic updating of forwarding rules and flow abstraction. OpenFlow-based applications have been proposed to ease the configuration of a network, to simplify network management and to add security features, to virtualize networks and data centers and to deploy mobile systems. These applications run on top of networking operating systems such as Nox, Beacon, Maestro, Floodlight, Trema or Node.Flow. Larger scale OpenFlow infrastructures have been deployed to allow the research community to run experiments and test their applications in more realistic scenarios. Also, studies have measured the performance of OpenFlow networks through modelling and experimentation. We describe the challenges facing the large scale deployment of OpenFlow-based networks and we discuss future research directions of this technology.

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Section: E Network Virtualization Using Mpls and Gmplsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Network Innovation using OpenFlow: A Survey

Lara

Kolasani

Ramamurthy

2014

IEEE Commun. Surv. Tutorials

524

226

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“…The European project OFELIA proposed OpenFlow-based transport SDN which includes for the first time both fixed and flexible grid optical networks [15][16][17][18]. The support of flexible grid DWDM technology (Flexi-Grid) in OFELIA's proposal follows the progressive advances and promises of this technology.…”

Section: B Openflow In Europe Linking Infrastructure and Applicationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Can open flow make transport networks smarter and dynamic? An overview on transport SDN

Alvizu

Maier

2014

2014 International Conference on Smart Communications in Network Technologies (SaCoNeT)

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Abstract-The growth of intra data center communications, cloud computing and multimedia content applications force transport network providers to allocate resources faster, smarter and dynamically. Software-defined Networking (SDN), has been proposed to create a unified control plane for transport networks (Transport SDN). This article presents an overview on Transport SDN proposals based on OpenFlow, the de facto SDN protocol. OpenFlow is at the forefront of the Transport SDN models and several testbeds have proved the implementation of a unified control plane for multi-domain and multi-technology optical transport networks. We show how OpenFlow can be enabled in current and future network devices through agents and new hardware respectively. Transport SDN can boost the programmability and scalability of the network, increase the network intelligence and allow for dynamic resource allocation and restoration. The review highlights a rapid development of Transport SDN, which seems to tackle the problems that GMPLS encountered for commercial deployment. Finally a comparison between the main research efforts towards a multi-domain transport SDN is given.

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“…The authors in [4] offer an integrated OpenFlow-GMPLS environment. The OpenFlow controller identifies the endpoints of the connection in the optical domain i.e.…”

Section: A Sdn/openflow For Packet-circuit Switchingmentioning

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“…(6), to the already created optical circuit-flow CFlow of the provisioned lightpath. This approach of mapping packet to circuit flows has been deployed [2,4,7] and can be used for the GST traffic.…”

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Scalability analysis of SDN-controlled optical ring MAN with hybrid traffic

Veisllari

Stol

Bjornstad

et al. 2014

2014 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC)

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The development of software defined networking (SDN) has instigated a growing number of experimental studies which demonstrate the flexibility in network control and management introduced by this technique. Optical networks add new challenges for network designers and operators to successfully dimension and deploy an SDN-based in the optical domain. At present, few performance evaluations and scalability studies that consider the high-bandwidth of the optical domain and the flow characterization from current Internet statistics have been developed. In this paper these parameters are taken as key inputs to study SDN scalability in the optical domain. As a relevant example an optical ring Metropolitan Area Network (MAN) is analyzed with circuit and packet traffic integrated at the wavelength level. The numerical results characterize the limitations in network dimensioning when considering an SDN controller implementation in the presence of different flow mixes. Employing flow aggregation and/or parallel distributed controllers is outlined as potential solution to achieve SDN network scalability.

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Integrated OpenFlow–GMPLS Control Plane: An Overlay Model for Software Defined Packet over Optical Networks

Cited by 45 publications

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Network Innovation using OpenFlow: A Survey

Network Innovation using OpenFlow: A Survey

Can open flow make transport networks smarter and dynamic? An overview on transport SDN

Scalability analysis of SDN-controlled optical ring MAN with hybrid traffic

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