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Software Defined Networking (SDN) in Optical Networks

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Software Defined Networking (SDN) has recently emerged as a relevant network architecture enabling the direct programmability of forwarding functions and the effective abstraction of the underlying infrastructure. SDN has been successfully introduced in the context of packet switching (e.g., within data centers) and relevant effort has been recently devoted to extend the SDN architecture to efficiently operate on optical networks.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    OpenFlow extensions covering optical networks were provided by Vello, a member the ONF. Such extensions are included in version 1.4, the latest published version at the time of writing.

  2. 2.

    The introduced protocol messages, fields, and objects reported in this section, as part of advanced experimental implementations, have to be considered open for changes and interoperability agreements.

Abbreviations

ABNO:

Application-Based Network Operations

API:

Application Programming Interface

EMS:

Element Management System

EON:

Elastic optical network

GMPLS:

Generalized Multi-Protocol Label Switching

MAC:

Medium Access Control

NMS:

Network Management System

OBS:

Optical Burst Switching

OCS:

Optical Circuit Switching

OF:

OpenFlow

OFDM:

Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing

OFP:

OpenFlow Protocol

ONF:

Open Networking Foundation

ONOS:

Open Source Network Operating System

OPS:

Optical Packet Switching

OS:

Operating System

PCE:

Path Computation Element

PCEP:

Path Computation Element Communication Protocol

ROADM:

Reconfigurable Optical Add Drop Multiplexer

RSA:

Routing and Spectrum Assignment

RWA:

Routing and Wavelength Assignment

SDN:

Software Defined Networking

WAN:

Wide Area Network

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    Filippo Cugini

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  4. Optical Networks and Systems Department, CTTC, Castelldefels, Spain

    Ramon Casellas

  5. Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

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Cugini, F., Castoldi, P., Channegowda, M., Casellas, R., Paolucci, F., Castro, A. (2016). Software Defined Networking (SDN) in Optical Networks. In: López, V., Velasco, L. (eds) Elastic Optical Networks. Optical Networks. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30174-7_9

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