From GMPLS to PCE/GMPLS to OpenFlow: How much benefit can we get from the technical evolution of control plane in optical networks?

International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Liu, Lei ^a   Tsuritani, Takehiro ^a   Morita, Itsuro ^a  

^a KDDI R AND D LABORATORIES INC   (Japan)

Author keywords

control plane; GMPLS; multi layer optical networks; OpenFlow; PCE; software defined networking

Indexed keywords

CONTROL PLANES; ENABLING TECHNIQUES; GENERALIZED MULTIPROTOCOL LABEL SWITCHING; GMPLS; LIGHTPATH PROVISIONING; NETWORK INTELLIGENCE; OPENFLOW; OPERATIONAL EXPENDITURES; PATH COMPUTATION ELEMENTS; PCE; RESEARCH ACTIVITIES; TECHNICAL EVOLUTION; WAVELENGTH-SWITCHED;

TRANSPARENT OPTICAL NETWORKS;

FIBER OPTIC NETWORKS;

EID: 84866972100     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21627339     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICTON.2012.6254417     Document Type: Conference Paper

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