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Experimental demonstration of OpenFlow-based control plane for elastic lightpath provisioning in Flexi-Grid optical
Jiawei Zhang1, Jie Zhang, Yongli Zhao
1State Key Laboratory of Information Photonics and Optical Communications, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, No.10 Xitucheng Road, Beijing 100876, China.
Abstract:
Due to the prominent performance on networking virtualization and programmability, OpenFlow is widely regarded as a promising control plane technology in packet-switched IP networks as well as wavelength-switched optical networks. For the purpose of applying software programmable feature to future optical networks, we propose an OpenFlow-based control plane in Flexi-Grid optical networks. Experimental results demonstrate its feasibility of dynamic lightpath establishment and adjustment via extended OpenFlow protocol. Wireshark captures of the signaling procedure are printed out. Additionally, the overall latency including signaling and hardware for lightpath setup and adjustment is also reported.
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