Multi-stratum resources resilience in software defined data center interconnection based on IP over elastic optical networks

IP over elastic optical network is a very promising networking architecture to interconnect data centers. It can enable efficient resource utilization and support heterogeneous bandwidth demands in cost-effective, highly available, and energy-effective manner. In case of aggregation elastic optical network node failure, to ensure a high-level quality of service for user request after the failure becomes a research focus. In this paper, we present a novel multi-stratum resources resilience (MSRR) architecture for the data center services in software defined data center interconnection based on IP over elastic optical networks. The MSRR can enable joint optimization of IP network, elastic optical network, and application stratum resources, and enhance the service resilience and the data center responsiveness to the dynamic end-to-end service demands. Additionally, a service-aware resource collaborative resilience strategy for MSRR is introduced based on the proposed architecture, which can provide the restoration using the multiple stratums resources in case of failure. The overall feasibility and efficiency of the proposed architecture are experimentally verified on our testbed. Moreover, the network performances are quantitatively evaluated through the simulation under heavy traffic load scenario in terms of path blocking probability, resource occupation rate, and path resilience latency.     

WDM optical network testbed and distributed storage application

In this article we present the details of a generalized multiprotocol label switching controlled wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) optical network developed under the Optical Network Focused Interest Group (ONFIG) program in Singapore. The WDM network is controlled through a GMPLS control plane that consists of CR-LDP, LMP, and OSPF-TE. We conducted various field trials on the GMPLS-capable WDM optical network testbed with the main focus on distributed storage service application. We developed and evaluated a distributed storage services application on the WDM optical network testbed and demonstrated that incorporating a lightweight data transport protocol with optical network control could be an efficient approach for data-intensive storage applications by exploiting the dynamic connection establishment and backup protection features.     

Designing and experimentally demonstrating automatic OPS/OCS/OpenFlow network control driven by ChoiceNet provider

Interconnection between our existing optical packet and circuit integrated network (OPCInet) and an ecosystem for network service provisioning named ChoiceNet enables network service providers to provide diverse services and realize control driven by the providers. In this paper, we design and implement control interfaces for the interconnection, which enables each ChoiceNet provider to explicitly control both OPCInet- and OpenFlow-based networks by use of a single common interface with proprietary/easily modifiable message formats for all control functions. We construct an experimental setup between the USA and Japan, and demonstrate that the OPCInet and an OpenFlow-based network placed in Japan are successfully controlled by request from the ChoiceNet provider installed in the USA. We also show that the time required to complete Telnet access to the OPCInet C-plane for each control is no more than 150 ms over the long distance from the USA to Japan.     

OTN互联互通及在国网骨干传送网应用分析

在多样性业务承载、网络流量快速增长等需求推动下,光传送网（OTN）已成为骨干传送网首选技术,相应OTN互联互通将为业界关注的应用热点。本文主要分析了OTN互联互通应用涉及关键技术,并进一步针对国网大容量骨干光传送网中OTN互联互通应用进行了探讨。     

Performance Analysis of Infrastructure Service Provision with GMPLS-Based Traffic Engineering

Dynamic sharing of the common physical network is envisioned as a key enabler for the emerging Internet technologies. This paper addresses challenges related to resource sharing in the physical layer and analyzes the performance of infrastructure service provision with control plane mechanisms based on generalized multi protocol label switching (GMPLS). In our approach, the provisioning of infrastructure services is supported by two novel concepts for GMPLS traffic engineering (TE): resource visibility and inter-domain exchange. Resource visibility is a new network control plane concept, which defines the usage polices for transmission, multiplexing, and switching resources in multiple GMPLS layers. In our architecture, every network resource may exhibit different visibility to different services at different layers. The inter-domain exchange, here referred to as GMPLS exchange point (GXP), is the physical layer equivalent of the Internet exchange point (IXP). Just as how the IXP manages interconnections of autonomous systems (AS) in the Internet, the GXP manages dynamic interconnections of multiple provider domains and enables them to advertise their physical resources to other domains. We model the dynamic provisioning of infrastructure services using graph theory and deploy GMPLS traffic engineering (TE) to optimize the routing and resource yields. The results obtained demonstrate that traffic engineering with resource visibility and GXP brings significant performance benefits in resource utilization and infrastructure extensibility, especially when network providers set up LSPs as a result of collaborative and carrier-neutral traffic engineering where they share information about resource capabilities and utilization     

新一代智能城域光网络

本文介绍了一种标准化的光控制平面。光控制平面被分解成邻居发现、服务发现、连接控制和拓扑/资源发现等几个基本的过程。不同的网络组织和分割导致了几个不同的自动配置模型：软性持久链路模型、用户接口模型和对等模型。最后还介绍了基于SDH光交换的新一代CIENA公司智能光网络，它具有大容量光交换能力和网络拓扑结构自动发现、端对端电路配置、带宽动态分配等功能及特点，将大大提高数据、电路业务的服务质量。     

新一代智能城域光网络

本提出了一种标准化的光控制平面。阐明了开了用于光传输网的控制平面所遇到的选择与挑战。光控制平面被分解成邻居发现、服务发现、连接控制和拓扑、资源发现等几个基本的过程。不同的网络组织和分割导致了几个不同的自动配置模型：软性持久链路模型、用户接口模型和对等模型。这是构成以IP为中心的光传输网的控制和管理基础。同时也介绍了基于SDH光交换的新一代CIENA公司智能光网络，它具有大容量光交换能力和网络拓扑结构自动发现、端对端电路配置、带宽动态分配等功能及特点，将大大提高数据、电路业务的服务质量，新一代智能光网络是干线和城域网络交换传输最佳的选择。     

Partitioned optical passive star (POPS) multiprocessorinterconnection networks with distributed control

This paper presents a partitioned optical passive star (POPS) interconnection topology and a control methodology that, together, provide the high throughput and low latency required for tightly coupled multiprocessor interconnection applications. The POPS topology has constant and symmetric optical coupler fanout and only one coupler between any two nodes of the network. Distributed control is based on the state sequence routing paradigm which multiplexes the network between a small set of control states and defines control operations to be transformations of those states. These networks have highly scalable characteristics for optical power budget, resource count, and message latency. Optical power is uniformly distributed and the size of the system is not directly limited by the power budget. Resource complexity grows as O(n) for the couplers, O(n√n) for transceivers, and O[√nlog(n)] for control. We present analysis and simulation studies which demonstrate the ability of a POPS network to support large scale parallel processing (1024 nodes) using current device and coupler technology     

Accounting for Shared Regenerators in GMPLS-Controlled Translucent Optical Networks

In translucent optical networks, the usage of sparse opto-electronic regenerators permits to overcome optical signal quality degradations. In dynamic translucent optical networks, where lightpaths are established upon request, regenerators can be effectively time shared. However, the current generalized multiprotocol label switching (GMPLS) protocol suite does not consider how to dynamically reserve and release shared regenerators and how to distribute regenerator availability information to network nodes. In this paper, four Translucent Lightpath Dynamic Provisioning (TLDP) schemes are proposed to establish lightpaths in dynamic distributed translucent optical networks. TLDP schemes differently combine the utilization of specific open shortest path first-traffic engineering (OSPF-TE) or resource reservation protocol-traffic engineering (RSVP-TE) extensions and shared regenerator availability information. Simulation results show that TLDP scheme based on OSPF-TE extensions obtains lower lightpath setup time, but higher control plane load than TLDP schemes based on RSVP-TE extensions. Moreover, schemes based on RSVP-TE extensions or on OSPF-TE extensions obtain the same lowest blocking probability.      

Design and implementation of an optical burst-switched network testbed

Optical burst switching has been receiving increased attention as a promising technology for building the next-generation optical Internet. This article presents the design and discusses the implementation of an overlay mode optical burst-switched network testbed. A flexible "transceiver + forwarding" edge node architecture is proposed to perform both electronic burst assembly/disassembly and optical burst forwarding. It is designed to provide class of service and wavelength selection for locally generated bursts, and transparency to cut-through bursts. The functional modules of the control plane and related key design issues are presented. In particular, we discuss a scheduling mechanism that efficiently combines two different contention resolutions in space and wavelength domains. Experimental results show the effectiveness of this scheme in reducing burst blocking probability. Furthermore, the performance of the network testbed and corresponding methods of improving it are discussed.     

Crossbar光交换网络

Crossbar网络是实现高速并行光学处理的一种最重要而有效的光交换网络结构。作为一种无阻塞网络,Crossbar网络具有简单性,易于实现控制,适合于构成光开关矩阵。总结和分析了近20多年来发展的Crossbar光交换网络,介绍了不同Crossbar光交换网络的原理、结构和性能,分析了Crossbar光交换网络的关键技术。目前光学互连网络的发展方向是实现集成大规模光互连。可以预见光学互连网络会朝着更加实用化的方向发展,并在其应用领域发挥越来越重要的作用。     

ASON光网格中基于GridFTP的资源并行调度机制

为解决面向应用驱动的网格资源动态分配,提出基于ASON的光网格模型,在此基础上提出面向GridFTP服务的并行网络资源调度机制.并行资源调度借助于光资源控制系统提供网格应用中并行通道数据传输,在网格应用驱动下实现网络资源的动态按需分配,提高了光资源利用效率及海量数据传输能力.通过构建基于ASON的光网格平台体系,执行DridFTP文件传输应用服务以验证所提模型和资源调度机制.     

Availability-aware service provisioning in SD-EON-based inter-datacenter networks

The tremendous transmission capacity and flexible spectrum allocation scheme make elastic optical networks (EONs) one of the most promising infrastructures for constructing the interconnection in datacenter (DC) networks. Meanwhile, as DC traffics exhibit highly dynamic and heterogeneous features, differentiated service provisioning schemes are desired. In this paper, we take the advantage of centralized network control and management provided by the software-defined elastic optical networks (SD-EONs) and investigate availability-aware service provisioning in SD-EON-based inter-datacenter (inter-DC) networks. We first describe the problem of availability-aware service provisioning in SD-EON-based inter-DC networks and present the theoretical analysis for service availability. Then, we propose an availability-aware service provisioning algorithm (ASP) that leverages different path protection schemes to satisfy different service availability requirements. A service downgrading (SD) strategy is also designed as a supplement of ASP to further improve its performance. Simulation results show that the proposed ASP-SD algorithm can effectively improve the spectrum efficiency without sacrificing availability.     

Signaling and Control Procedures Using Generalized MPLS Protocol for IP over an Optical Network

This paper reviews the existing research activities on signaling and control procedures for IP over optical networks. We focus on the IP‐centric signaling and control architecture based on the generalized multi‐protocol label switching (GMPLS) protocol and analyze various scenarios and technical issues for deploying the IP over an optical network. We analyze the signaling and operations and administration and maintenance requirements for integrating an IP network and an optical network in order to cope with the high bandwidth and poor resource granularity of the optical network, including the optical cross‐connect system. On the basis of network architecture and a reference configuration model, we investigate the GMPLS‐based control architecture and interconnection model appropriate for controlling IP bandwidth and optical lambda resources. The signaling and control procedure based on GMPLS on optical user‐network interface and network‐network interface are comparatively investigated to provide the optical lightpath. We also study protection and restoration procedures to protect link failure when it applies to GMPLS signaling.     

Research of novel complex optical network routing architecture

This article puts forward a novel routing architecture for complex optical network,which core component is path calculation element(PCE).As is well known,the PCE-based distributed path computation structure is making the routing control and computation loosely coupled from traditional control plane.In the study,the resource allocation and routing algorithm are the critical part of PCE hierarchy.To compare the performance of new architecture and the traditional one,the user uses the flooding suppression,routing delay,resource utilization and traffic blocking probability as performance simulation parameters and taking the verification simulation on objective modular network testbed(OMNeT)platform against to source-node routing architecture.The numerical analysis,computer simulation and experiment work indicate that the operation of PCE-based routing architecture can reduce the flooding information of path calculation request as well as the routing hops significantly and improve the quality of service(QoS)by decreasing the blocking probability when failure happened.     

NGN中资源接纳控制研究进展

下一代网业务控制和传送功能相分离后，为了保证业务的服务质量（QoS），引入了资源接纳控制的概念。通过实行资源接纳控制，资源接纳控制子系统（RACS）向上向业务层屏蔽传送网络的具体细节，支持业务控制与传送功能相分离；向下感知传送网络的资源使用情况，确保正确合理地使用传送网络资源，从而保证业务的服务质量（QoS），并防止带宽和业务盗用现象发生。功能架构、涉及的实体和参考点、接入类型和终端、资源控制模式、功能实体之间的选择机制、不同域之间的互联、和传送控制功能中其他功能之间的交互是资源接纳控制的核心内容。由于TISPANRACS和DITU—T资源接纳控制功能（RACF）的研究重点有差异，因此统一不同组织定义的架构将是各个组织今后研究的重点。     

LTE核心网EMM协议栈服务请求过程的研究与实现

服务请求过程是LTE信令系统中的重要一环,是控制面与数据面唯一有联系的信令流程。文中重点研究了服务请求过程的正常和异常信令流程,并提出了EMM协议栈服务请求过程的流程设计以及具体实现方法。同时使用Wireshark网络分析仪进行测试,测试结果满足预期要求。     

Polymorphic Architectures for Optical Networks and their Seamless Evolution towards Next Generation Networks

This paper proposes a novel polymorphic framework for optical networking and a seamless evolution path from optical circuit-switched towards optical packet-switched networks. We show that by simultaneously supporting several optical switching paradigms in a single physical topology, efficient and flexible optical networks can be built. The supported paradigms are associated with different Classes of Service (CoS) in order to provide service differentiation at the optical layer. Two polymorphic architectures are presented, one based on optical circuit switching paradigms with different grades of dynamism, and a second one based on optical labeled burst-switched networks with the added capability of dynamic lightpath provisioning. These architectures provide a seamless evolution path towards an efficient IP-over-WDM approach with service differentiation. Moreover, the proposed polymorphic architectures are fully compatible with the GMPLS unified control plane. We present in a detailed form the proposed polymorphic framework, including the selection of switching paradigms, its support for CoS, the network and control architecture, and a possible seamless evolution towards optical packet-switched networks. Possible implementation examples of optical network nodes that support the proposed polymorphic architectures are also presented.     

Grade-of-service differentiated static resource allocation schemes in WDM networks

This paper presents a study on the Grade-of-Service (GoS) differentiation of static resource allocation in lightpath routed WDM networks, where lightpath requests between node pairs are given. Each request is associated with a service grade. The goal is to maintain certain service levels for the requests of all grades. The service levels are measured in terms of their acceptance ratios. We solve this network optimization problem by adopting a penalty-based framework, in which network design and operation goals can be evaluated based on cost/revenue. We propose a static GoS differentiation model as one minimizing the total rejection and cost penalty, in which the rejection penalty reflects the revenue of accepting a request, and the cost penalty reflects the resource consumption of providing a lightpath to a request. Then, a solution based on the Lagrangian relaxation and subgradient methods is used to solve the proposed optimization problem. Three different application scenarios are presented: static GoS differentiation of requests between the same node pair, static GoS differentiation of requests between different node pairs, and an integration of static GoS differentiation into the network profit objective. The fairness issues and the impact of relative penalty factors are discussed to provide guidelines for network planning.     

卫星通信网络资源管理研究

本文针对RCST终端,研究了基于区分服务QoS的容量请求排队调度机制;针对网络控制中心,研究了一种基于业务量变化趋势预测的动态资源管理方法,可用于IP化卫星通信网络中终端与中心站之间交互式的业务请求与资源分配。