Overarching control of flexi grid optical networks: Interworking of GMPLS and OpenFlow domains

R Casellas, R Munoz, R Martínez, R Vilalta… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2015 - opg.optica.org
controller interface (CCI) within the automatically switched optical networks (ASON) architecture
[14… /interface (regardless of the network control architecture in which it was defined). The …

Dynamic and adaptive control plane solutions for flexi-grid optical networks based on stateful PCE

R Munoz, R Casellas, R Vilalta… - Journal of lightwave …, 2014 - opg.optica.org
control plane for flexi-grid DWDM networks, as well as for enabling the standardized deployment
of the GMPLS control plane in the SDN control architecture. … -enabled flexi-grid DWDM …

IDEALIST control plane architecture for multi-domain flexi-grid optical networks

R Casellas, R Munoz, R Martínez… - … on Networks and …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
control plane for flexigrid optical networks presents different challenges, requiring architectural
… , addressing the constraints associated to flexi-grid DWDM networks, variable bandwidth …

Control plane solutions for sliceable bandwidth transceiver configuration in flexi-grid optical networks

R Martinez, F Cugini, R Casellas… - IEEE …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… This section describes the considered SBVT architecture along with the definition of all
the key parameters to be configured when creating either a single optical flow or a super-channel …

Highly available SDN control of flexi-grid networks with network function virtualization-enabled replication

R Casellas, R Vilalta, R Martínez… - Journal of Optical …, 2017 - opg.optica.org
… The GMPLS/PCE architecture conveys two main control plane databases: the traffic … In
Section III, we detail our proposed control plane architecture and proposed functional entities, …

Control and management of flexi-grid optical networks with an integrated stateful path computation element and OpenFlow controller

R Casellas, R Martínez, R Muñoz, R Vilalta… - Journal of Optical …, 2013 - opg.optica.org
… is a logically centralized entity that implements a control … From a control plane perspective,
an OpenFlow controller and … , and flexible protocol, and the OpenFlow controller assumes the …

Experimental validation of the ACTN architecture for flexi-grid optical networks using active stateful hierarchical PCEs

R Casellas, R Vilalta, R Martínez… - 2017 19th …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… The architecture … the control of a Customer Network Controller (CNC). In this paper, we
present the application of the ACTN architecture to the control of a multi-domain flexigrid optical …

Time-sensitive software-defined networking (Ts-SDN) control architecture for flexi-grid optical networks with data center application

Y Zhao, W Wang, J Zhang - Photonic Network Communications, 2014 - Springer
… -SDN)-based control architecture is designed with OpenFlow … Ts-SDN-based control
architecture, which can complete data … proposed Ts-SDN control architecture and deadline-driven …

Experimental performance evaluation of software defined networking (SDN) based data communication networks for large scale flexi-grid optical networks

Y Zhao, R He, H Chen, J Zhang, Y Ji, H Zheng, Y Lin… - Optics express, 2014 - opg.optica.org
… based control plane for large scale flexi-grid optical … control architecture for flexi-grid optical
network, and the functional models of NOX (network operation system) based controller are …

IDEALIST control and service management solutions for dynamic and adaptive flexi-grid DWDM networks

R Muñoz, V López, R Casellas… - 2013 Future Network …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… to evolve the fixed DWDM grid to a flexible grid, in which the … The ICT IDEALIST project will
provide the architectural design… such core node architecture, the control plane functionalities …