智能光网络控制平面技术

光网络的智能化是下一代光网络发展的主要趋势,在对智能光网络发展背景进行分析的基础上,对光网络控制平面技术进行了讨论,重点分析了光网络控制平面的功能模型、主要功能、应用协议和控制平面的可靠性等问题。

基于IP/MPLS的光网络控制平面技术

介绍了基于IP/MPLS的光网络控制平面技术以及相应的光网络结构和网络接口,并将其与传统的光网络控制系统进行了比较。

下一代光传送网∶自动交换光网络

为适应网络动态化的要求,国际电信联盟标准化组织(ITU-T)提出了自动交换光网络(ASON)的概念。文章对ASON的网络总体结构、控制层面组成、控制协议及其与广义多协议标签交换(GMPLS)结构的关系作了概要的描述,并对ASON和光互联网进行了比较。

浅谈通信网向下一代网络的演进趋势

传统的通信网存在的主要问题包括：业务提供不灵活，网络资源利用率低，连接效率低，网络的开放性较差，不能满足丰富多彩的用户需求等，因此，传统的通信网正在逐渐向下一代网络（NGN）发展和演进。NGN具有标准，开放，统一的接口，统一的业务特性，业务模块组合可形成复杂的业务，

ASON源路由中实现ECMP的方法

传统的IP路由中,路由协议维护路由表,所有的分组根据路由表中的信息被转发。而在ASON(自动交换光网络)中的路由计算一般采用源路由的方式,没有路由表的参与,即每一次计算均为特定的业务进行,所计算出的路由即为该业务的实际路由,因此在ASON中无法通过更改路由表来实现ECMP(等价多路径)。本文介绍了一种在ASON源路由中实现ECMP的方法。

NGN:电信网的未来

据悉，由信息产业部电信研究院主办的“2004全球NGN高峰论坛”将于今年4月26日～28日在北京召开。一时间，有关NGN的话题成为业界关注的焦点。其实，早在人们给予NGN关注之前，NGN就已经在扎扎实实地不断取得各种突破。如今，无论是业界翘楚还是市场新人都正在加入NGN的队伍当中，这似乎预示着NGN大规模商用的来临。NGN的发展将改变电信业现有的市场格局。

On Reliability-optimized Controller Placement for Software-Defined Networks

By decoupling control plane and data plane,Software-Defined Networking(SDN) approach simplifies network management and speeds up network innovations.These benefits have led not only to prototypes,but also real SDN deployments.For wide-area SDN deployments,multiple controllers are often required,and the placement of these controllers becomes a particularly important task in the SDN context.This paper studies the problem of placing controllers in SDNs,so as to maximize the reliability of SDN control networks.We present a novel metric,called expected percentage of control path loss,to characterize the reliability of SDN control networks.We formulate the reliability-aware control placement problem,prove its NP-hardness,and examine several placement algorithms that can solve this problem.Through extensive simulations using real topologies,we show how the number of controllers and their placement influence the reliability of SDN control networks.Besides,we also found that,through strategic controller placement,the reliability of SDN control networks can be significantly improved without introducing unacceptable switch-to-controller latencies.

HiQoS:An SDN-Based Multipath QoS Solution

Today's Internet architecture provides only "best effort" services,thus it cannot guarantee quality of service(QoS) for applications.Software Defined Network(SDN)is a new approach to computer networking that separates control plane and forwarding planes,and has the advantage of centralized control and programmability.In this paper,we propose HiQoS that provides QoS guarantees using SDN.Moreover,HiQoS makes use of multiple paths between source and destination and queuing mechanisms to guarantee QoS for different types of traffic.Experimental results show that our HiQoS scheme can reduce delay and increase throughput to guarantee QoS.Very importantly,HiQoS recovers from link failure very quickly by rerouting traffic from failed path to other available path.

A Frameless Network Architecture for the Way Forward of C-RAN

The key technologies involved in the evolution of the Cloud-based Radio Access Network(C-RAN) are discussed in this paper. Taking the Frameless Network Architecture(FNA) as a starting point, a cell-lessbased network topology for a multi-tier Heterogeneous Network(Het Net) and ultra-dense network is proposed. The FNA network topology modeling is researched with centralized processing and distributed antenna deployments. The Antenna Element(AE) is released as a new dimensional radio resource that is included in the centralized Radio Resource Management(RRM) processes. This contributes to the on-demand user-centric serving-set associations with cell-edge effect elimination. The Control Plane(CP) and User Plane(UP) separation and adaptation are introduced for energy efficiency improvements. The centralized RRM and different optimization goals are discussed for fully exploring the merits from the centralized computing of C-RAN. Considering the complexity, near-optimal approaches for specific users' Quality-of-Service(Qo S) requirements are addressed. Finally, based on the research highlighted above, the way forward of C-RAN evolution is discussed.

Software-Defined Optical Data Centre Networks

Based on the analysis of data centre(DC) traffic pattern, we introduced a holistic software-defined optical DC solution. Architecture-on-Demand based hybrid optical switched(OPS/OCS) data centre network(DCN) fabric is introduced, which is able to realise different inter-and intra-cluster configurations and dynamically support diverse traffic in the DC. The optical DCN is controlled and managed by a software-defined networking(SDN) enabled control plane to achieve high programmability. Moreover, virtual data centre(VDC) composition is developed as an application of such softwaredefined optical DC to create VDC slices for different tenants.

SDICN: A Software Defined Deployable Framework of Information Centric Networking

the Information-Centric Networking(ICN) paradigm is proved to have the advantages of decreasing data delivery latency, enhancing user mobility, etc. However, current implementations of ICN require changing the infrastructure of Internet, which hinders its deployment and development. Meanwhile, Software Defined Networking(SDN) emerges as a viable solution to facilitate the deployment of new network paradigm without disrupting production traffic by decoupling the control plane from data forwarding plane. In this paper, the essential properties which reflect ICN working principles are summarized, and a framework called SDICN is designed in accordance to the SDN philosophy. The algorithmic frameworks of SDICN which can satisfy the essential properties are designed based on the programmability and virtualization functions of SDN. Based on Open Flow and data center technology, a prototype of SDICN is implemented. By comparing the performance with the CCNx, the SDICN is proved to be feasibility and availability.

A Survivability Routing Mechanism in SDN Enabled Wireless Mesh Networks:Design and Evaluation

In software-defined networking,the separation of control plane from forwarding plane introduces new challenges to network reliability.This paper proposes a fault-tolerant routing mechanism to improve survivability by converting the survivability problem into two sub-problems:constructing an elastic-aware routing tree and controller selection.Based on the shortest path tree,this scheme continuously attempts to prune the routing tree to enhance network survivability.After a certain number of iterations,elastic-aware routing continues to improve network resiliency by increasing the number of edges in this tree.Simulation results demonstrate this fault-tolerant mechanism performs better than the traditional method in terms of the number of protected nodes and network fragility indicator.

Smart control plane for information centric network-internet service provider networks

The information centric network(ICN)has been widely discussed in current researches.The ICN interoperation with a traditional IP network and caching methods are one of the research topics of interest.For economic reasons,the capability of applying the ICN to internet service providers(ISPs)with various traditional IP protocols already implemented,especially IGP,MPLS,VRF,and TE,does not require any change on the IP network infrastructure.The biggest concern of ISPs is related to their customers’contents delivery speed.In this paper,we consider ICN caching locations in ISP by using the concept of locator/ID separation protocol(LISP)for interoperation between a traditional IP address and name-based ICN.To be more specific,we propose a new procedure to determine caching locations in the ICN by using the cuckoo search algorithm(CSA)for finding the best caching locations of information chunks.Moreover,we create the smart control plane(SCP)scheme which is an intelligent controlling,managing,and mapping system.Its function is similar to the software defined network concept.We show how the proposed SCP system works in both synthetic small network and real-world big network.Finally,we show and evaluate the performance of our algorithm comparison with the simple search method using the shortest path first algorithm.

SDN Orchestration for Dynamic End-to-End Control of Data Center Multi-Domain Optical Networking

New and emerging use cases, such as the interconnection of geographically distributed data centers(DCs), are drawing attention to the requirement for dynamic end-to-end service provisioning, spanning multiple and heterogeneous optical network domains. This heterogeneity is, not only due to the diverse data transmission and switching technologies, but also due to the different options of control plane techniques. In light of this, the problem of heterogeneous control plane interworking needs to be solved, and in particular, the solution must address the specific issues of multi-domain networks, such as limited domain topology visibility, given the scalability and confidentiality constraints. In this article, some of the recent activities regarding the Software-Defined Networking(SDN) orchestration are reviewed to address such a multi-domain control plane interworking problem. Specifically, three different models, including the single SDN controller model, multiple SDN controllers in mesh, and multiple SDN controllers in a hierarchical setting, are presented for the DC interconnection network with multiple SDN/Open Flow domains or multiple Open Flow/Generalized Multi-Protocol Label Switching( GMPLS) heterogeneous domains. I n addition, two concrete implementations of the orchestration architectures are detailed, showing the overall feasibility and procedures of SDN orchestration for the end-to-endservice provisioning in multi-domain data center optical networks.

Wavelength Converter Information Sharing in GMPLS Controlled Optical Networks

Wavelength converters are used in optical networks to overcome transparent wavelength channel insufficiency. However, current GMPLS control plane does not distribute wavelength con- verter information to network nodes. To overcome this situation, four wavelength converter information sharing methods for GMPLS-controUed optical networks are proposed. The first two, Conversion Capability during Signaling （CCS） and Conversion Availability during Signaling （CAS）, are based on the RSVP-TE signaling protocol, while the others, Conversion Capability Advertisement （CCA） and Conversion Availability Advertisement （ CAA ） , are based on the OSPF-TE routing protocol. Simulations show that CAA obtains the lowest blocking, while CCS the highest. Moreover, CAA only slightly increases the control plane load compared to CAS.

On the feasibility and efficacy of control traffic protection in software-defined networks

Software Defined Networking （SDN） is an emerging networking paradigm that assumes a logically centralized control plane separated from the data plane. Despite all its advantages, separating the control and data planes introduces new challenges regarding resilient communications between the two. That is, disconnec- tions between switches and their controllers could result in substantial packet loss and performance degradation. This paper addresses this challenge by studying the issue of control traffic protection in SDNs with arbitrary numbers of controllers. Specifically, we propose a control traffic protection scheme that combines both local rerouting and constrained reverse path forwarding protections, through which switches can locally react to fail- ures and redirect the control traffic using standby backup forwarding options. Our goal is then to find a set of primary routes for control traffic, called protected control network, where as many switches as possible can benefit from the proposed protection scheme. We formulate the protected control network problem, prove its NP-hardness, and develop an algorithm that reconciles proteetability and performance （e.g., switch-to-control latency）. Through extensive simulations based on real topologies, we show that our approach significantly im- proves protectability of control traffic. The results should help further the process of deploying SDN in real-world networks.