Demonstration of a dynamic transparent optical network employing flexible transmitters/receivers controlled by an OpenFlow-stateless PCE integrated control plane [invited]

Journal of Optical Communications and Networking

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Liu, Lei ^a,b   Choi, Hyeon Yeong ^a   Casellas, Ramon ^c   Tsuritani, Takehiro ^a   Morita, Itsuro ^a   Martinez, Ricardo ^c   Munoz, Raul ^c  

^a KDDI R AND D LABORATORIES INC   (Japan)

^b University of California   (United States)

^c CENTRE TECNOLÒGIC DE TELECOMUNICACIONS DE CATALUNYA CTTC   (Spain)

Author keywords

Flexible transmitter receiver; OpenFlow; Path computation element (PCE); Software defined networking (SDN); Wavelength switched optical network (WSON)

Indexed keywords

FLEXIBLE TRANSMITTER/RECEIVER; OPENFLOW; PATH COMPUTATION ELEMENTS; SOFTWARE-DEFINED NETWORKINGS; WAVELENGTH-SWITCHED;

COMPLEX NETWORKS; DIGITAL STORAGE; HARDWARE; INTEGRATED CONTROL; LIGHT MODULATORS; QUADRATURE AMPLITUDE MODULATION; RESTORATION; SCALABILITY; TRANSMITTERS; TRANSPARENT OPTICAL NETWORKS; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

CONTROLLERS;

EID: 84887343442     PISSN: 19430620     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOCN.5.000A66     Document Type: Article

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